Re: Moving VAX into 21 century :-)

To: Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Moving VAX into 21 century :-)
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 06:56:27 -0700

> On Aug 26, 2019, at 6:15 AM, Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On 26.08.2019 14:08, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have been looking at some VAX problems lately, and have found out that
>> there are two architectural things things that probably would help VAX
>> quite much.
>> 
>> 1) Change calling convention.
>>     As described in my previous mail, it would solve a very old
>> well-known performance problem.
>> 
> 
> What is this change about?
> 
> Also if we change ABI we could spare one register to TLS.

It's certainly an interesting idea!

-- thorpej

References:
- Moving VAX into 21 century :-)
  - From: Anders Magnusson
- Re: Moving VAX into 21 century :-)
  - From: Kamil Rytarowski

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