Author: David Fotland
Date: 14:12:27 06/04/98
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On June 03, 1998 at 19:58:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: snipped... IA64 and x86 discussion > >It's time for a revamp to get rid of that old architectural fiasco, and >give us an architecture that is pleasant to program in assembly >language, >not one that makes you keep a supply of air-sickness bags handy... :) The goals were performance and compatibility, not ease of assembly language programming. Predication, speculation, and explicit parallelism can make it quite difficult to write correct assembly language, and even more difficult to write assembly with optimal performance. You may want to stick to C as much as possible. David
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