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Subject: Re: compilers and itaniums

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:01:28 08/06/03

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On August 06, 2003 at 07:16:35, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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 :)

He never _claimed_ to have worked on the Intel C++ compiler for Itanium.

He _did_ claim to be working on the Microsoft C++ compiler for Itanium.

There _is_ a difference.

>
>>
>>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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