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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