Re: PL/S programming language

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> peter.ludemann@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> 
> (snip)
>>  That's how
>> they discovered that MVCL was slower than a loop of MVCs. (BTW, PL/I
>> "optimizing" compiler also used a loop of MVCs rather than MVCL.)
> 
> That has been widely known for a while now.
> 
> I believe, though, that MVCL is still faster for validating
> storage.  That is, at power up when the ECC hasn't been set
> yet you have to write whole ECC blocks.  MVCL will do that
> (assuming the right alignment) MVC might not.

But that isn't necessary. Volatile ECC is made valid on power-on, and 
non-volatile ECC is left as-is.

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