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- From: mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.223447.6924@gordian.com>
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- References: <1992Dec29.044012.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> <3623363@zl2tnm.gen.nz> <C0K3HC.A8B@dscomsa.desy.de> <1993Jan8.222519.6703@gordian.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:34:47 GMT
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- Ooops, looks like my little rant was misdirected. I of course
- was talking about the VMS VAXCRTL. One can only hope that the
- C RTL for Alpha/VMS was not a direct port...
-
- In article <1993Jan8.222519.6703@gordian.com>, mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas) writes:
- > In article <C0K3HC.A8B@dscomsa.desy.de>, hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker) writes:
- > > In article <3623363@zl2tnm.gen.nz>, don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
- > > |>I personally believe VAXCRTL is a serious impediment to DEC's claims of
- > > |>"openness" in VMS. Life's too short to have to go re-implementing half
- > > |>the RTL whenever you try to get anything done because the standard stuff
- > > |>is too slow, too buggy or more often than not, both.
- > >
- > > Has anyone any idea what the DECC RTL is like? Has anyone tried it on a VAX? (is
- > > it avaliable for VAX??) Comparing DECC on Alpha to VAXC is not really on...
- > > anything running on the alpha tends to look fast.
- >
- > Yes. The previous author is 100% correct IMHO. I basically gave up
- > on them ever getting the standard library routines (such as read(2) and
- > write(2)) being anything other than disgustingly slow (on the order
- > of 10-100 times slower then using RMS directly). Worse, it could
- > easily write files than *nothing* else could read. That and the early
- > coverage of library routines was pretty grim. And another thing is
- > that the damn linker isn't case specific which breaks a lot of ports.
- > What is worst part of this entire brain dead situation is that there
- > is *no* reason for it.
- > Don't get me started on this...
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- Michael Thomas (mike@gordian.com)
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