On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:05:43 -0800, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
>But in order to take advantage of those new instructions, two things have to >happen: (a.) IBM had to release a dramatically improved COBOL compiler (they >did) and (b.) Mr. CIO has to recompile everything. But Mr. CIO has either lost >the source code, or does not know if his source code corresponds to his >production loadlibs, or Mr. CIO has laid off all the programmers and there is >no one to re-compile and re-test. > >Enter the ABO ... This is fun. Soooo ... let's extend this a little. Why must the ABO (or the compiler for that matter) emit object code ?. Why not java byte-code ?. Then you'd *know* that all the latest mickey-mouse instructions were being used. By everybody. And you could ship it off to a ZIIP. Save Mr. CIO even more money for nothing. Absolute no-brainer. Must be under development in some skunk-works corner of IBM right this minute ... Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
