Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:18:00 06/29/00
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On June 29, 2000 at 15:53:29, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 Why? Someone said the same thing about dual processor machines several years ago. Now they are dirt cheap. I know of evaluation Itanium machines that are not SMP. They are being used for Intel VAR software development projects, which is a pretty common procedure. In fact, I would bet that Eugene has one. :)
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