On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 09:06:38PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 5:50 PM Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > > > We did retire vax, and we no longer have any platform without dynamic > > libraries. > > > > > OT but: out of sheer curiosity, why didn't VAX support dynamic libraries?
Very different architecture, no register to do pic code efficiently and 512 bytes pages. NetBSD moved to shared libraries on vax at a huge performance cost (something like 30%), if I recall what Miod was saying at the time.
