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Subject: Re: Q about Itanium

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 09:25:59 06/29/00

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On June 29, 2000 at 03:47:15, Angrim wrote:

>On June 27, 2000 at 22:42:55, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>Use Itanium machine. There are 127 64-bit integer registers, plus 126 FP
>>registers that also can be used for some integer operations :-)
>>
>>Eugene
>>
>
>Do you know if there are any C compilers yet for the Itanium
>which make good use of all these registers?

Of course there are. MSVC, HP's, and Intel's compiler. And there is GCC, but it
performs much less optimizations than either of commercial ones (it's very hard
to do some of them).

>Also, how much would an Itanium based system cost?  I assume that
>it is more than I could afford for my home system?

I cannot answer that question -- ask Intel guys. But in several years they'll be
cheap enough...

And of couse you can design your program on 32-bit hardware and than just
recompile it for 64-bit system. MS tries to make it as easy as possible, and my
guess is that HP/Intel is doing the same.

Eugene

>Angrim



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