[Info-vax] New VSI post on Youtube

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-08-14, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 8/12/2024 10:53 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Oracle and VMS Software on Application Development and Migration to x86:
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmLEI5O1JSw
>> 
>> I have not seen & heard it all yet.
>> 
>> Somewhere in the middle they summarize the status of the x86-64 port
>> as: 8920 tests succeed + 271 tests fail + 608 test not run yet.
>
> Did this get lost in all the spam filters?
>
> I guess a YouTube link does look like spam, but ...
>

I did see this the first time around, but had nothing to say at the time.

However, since you ask, I prefer a writeup rather than a 40 minute video
for this kind of update, but based on the numbers above, they are making
good progress but are not there yet.

Based on the above, I would guess/hope early next year for them to be ready,
which would put them a year behind schedule. It would be interesting to
know the reasons for the failures however and what is different about the
x86-64 environment that resulted in test differences that ended up being
classified as failures.

In total, there's about 10% of the tests which have not been done or have
failed, but as we all know the first 90% of a project takes 90% of the
time and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. :-)

Simon.

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