[Info-vax] What would be involved in moving RMS into kernel mode ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-05-10, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2023-05-10 14:23, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> Actually, that's not true. "Production-ready" means exactly one thing,
>> especially for the kinds of people using VMS:
>> 
>> that the product in question is considered to be finished and has been
>> through such a robust testing process that you are now willing to trust
>> the future of your organisation and your organisation's data with it.
>
> I would agree with that definition.
>
>> There's no way that x86-64 VMS, at this point in its lifecycle, can
>> meet those criteria, although hopefully that will change rapidly in
>> the not too distant future.
>> 
>> For one thing, x86-64 VMS is still built using non-optimised compilers.
>> 
>> Any person with any experience elsewhere of the implications of that,
>> should be asking how many bugs and other issues will emerge once VMS is
>> built using optimised compilers ?
>
> This is utter nonsense. Optimizing code don't suddenly create new bugs.
> Unless there are bugs in the toolchain, non-optimized code and optimized 
> code will produce the same results, but the amount of time and memory 
> required might differ. Or else the bugs are already there in the 
> unoptimized code.
>

If you remove the first two sentences of your reply, you are actually
agreeing with everything I say above and in other posts in this thread.

Simon.

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