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