Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 12:53:29 06/29/00
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On June 29, 2000 at 12:25:59, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >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... I think Intel has already publicly stated that Itanium computers will be multiprocessor for the forseeable future. If this is still true, an Itanium will definitely cost a fortune. -Tom
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