At 07:23 AM 7/25/00 -0400, lane @ DUPHY4.Physics.Drexel.Edu wrote:
>I haven't heard anything from Charles Bailey recently; last word was that
>he was going to try the piping code, but working remotely from Texas to
>his microvax here in Philly is painful, not least because of the slowness
>of Perl builds on a uV3.
Few things would accelerate the development of Perl on VMS as much as
someone dredging up a slightly more recent machine for Charles. I assume a
hobbyist license would be kosher for unremunerated open source development.
[large snip]
>So I'm pretty confident that (experimentally!) we're AST-safe for VMS 6.2,
>further confidence can only come from authoritative statements from
>DEC/Compaq or if someone can dredge through the CRTL source.
Thanks for the careful explanation of where and how the C RTL and ASTs cross
paths. I agree that the cause for concern is minimal with recent versions
of the RTL. VMS 5.5 is the unknown, and I think Charles did say recently
that he wants to continue supporting it. Under 5.5, though, I think disk
i/o was limited to one thread per process per device unless you installed
the optional XQP+, so the possibilities of multi-threaded mayhem are quite
minimal in theory but worth testing if anyone can do so.
This discussion may be moot since Charles may have folded in the changes but
not synched up with the main repository yet.
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