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Subject: compilers and itaniums

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 04:16:35 08/06/03

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On August 05, 2003 at 04:58:39, Bo Persson wrote:
>>For the x86-64 i bet they want an assembly version too, because the platform is
>>going to be very important.
>
>Or they could make sure that they have one of the best compilers available.
>Guess what Eugene is working on. :-)

I do not know how good the visual c++ version for itanium is.

The itanium system in netherlands which soon will be a 416 processor aster 3000
system from SGI (right now just 64 processors are there) runs linux and has a
intel c++ 7.0 version at it and a gcc 3.0.4 at my request (i had requested 3.3
actually but i gotta compile that myself on the machine to use it).

So i have no idea how good nalimov's compiler is but i bet very few on the
planet will ever use it. By the time they release it, the itanium platform is
perhaps already replaced. The only itanium systems that will be there quite a
while will be supercomputer systems. Usually they run linux a look like OSes and
not windows.

Just like windows, linux also has a 64 processor limit. So that means that this
416 processor supercomputer also is divided into 64 and 32 processor partitions.

The only thing that i can check is the intel c++ compiler of course.

According to SGI that is created by both intel specialists and especially SGI
compiler specialists.

This is the litterary statement from the SGI spokesman at the Altix3000
presentation.

So using that statement, nalimov has zero chance to have been working on an
intel c++ version of the itanium compiler either :)

>
>I once got my first copy of the MS C compiler with the Windows 1.0 beta. Wonder
>why!
>
>
>>
>>linux does not have such problems. there is hardly software working for it!
>
>:-)
>
>
>Bo Persson
>bop2@telia.com



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