Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 20:51:26 01/16/03
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Actually, it became better on Itanium2. It's almost usable :-) Thanks, Eugene On January 16, 2003 at 21:28:54, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On January 16, 2003 at 20:11:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 16, 2003 at 20:01:32, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >> >>>Itanium (I and II) can natively execute x86 code. Performance is not great, but >>>often sufficient. I.e. it's possible to run some x86 program that was not ported >>>to the IA-64. >>> >>>For example, engineer can run natively compiled CAD package and x86 mail client >>>on the same system. >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Eugene >> >>is this with hardware or software emulation? IE the alpha had an emulator >>to execute old vax stuff. But it was horribly slow... > >Itanium x86 support is in hardware, and it is more than horribly slow. >Eugene's example of a mail program is about the most intensive thing I'd want to >even try running on it.
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