RE: Using RISC as development, sending to CISC. Any problems forseen?

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 08:10 AM 7/1/98 -0000, you wrote:
>Brad,
>
>If you compile with Target Release V3R1 or V3R2 on your Risc box, you 
>can then save with Target Release V3R1 or R2, restore the pgms and 
>stuff with no problem.
>
>Be aware that if you do your SAVOBJ/LIB with target V3R1 and then 
>restore to a risc box, it will take a LONG time.  Longer than if the 
>object was compiled on a CISC box and then restored to RISC.  I do not 
>know exactly what is going on in this, but if you are going to restore 
>to a RISC box, save with a target release of V3R6 or better.

The reason that the restore of a RISC capable program to CISC takes a long
time is that the program has to reencapsulate when it is restored to CISC,
and that happen on the restore.  A few points:

-       I don't see any reason why it should take longer to restore if the
program had ever been compiled on CISC.

-       To minimize tape drive delay, save the programs to a save file, restore
the save file (fast), and then restore the programs from the save file in
batch in the background at low priority.   This will especially save time
on a server system.

Al



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