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> This thread is becoming ridiculously long. Just as a last side-note: |
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> One of the primary reasons that the IA64 architecture failed was that it |
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> relied on the compiler to optimize the code in order to exploit the |
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> massive instruction-level parallelism the CPU offered. Compilers never |
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> became good enough for the job. Of course, that happended in the |
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> nineties and we have much better compilers now (and x86 is easier to |
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> handle for compilers). But on the other hand: That was Intel's next big |
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> thing and if they couldn't make the compilers work, I have no reason to |
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> believe in their efficiency now. |
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> Regards, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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Argh, just as I want to quit: I had the dates garbled up. IA64 came out |
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in 2001 but the compiler design was of course a product of the late |
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nineties and the design process started mid-nineties. |
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