Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:37:01 06/22/01
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On June 22, 2001 at 20:56:28, Brian Richardson wrote: [snip] >The parallelism of the IA-64 architecture over time will help quite a bit I >think, but not so much in the initial Itanium implementation. Wait until Intel >publishes the SPEC results (which include Crafty, not tuned of course). During >2H01/1H02 I think then current IA-32 processors will do better, until about mid >2002 (McKinley) when IA-64 will start to outrun IA-32, a least for this specific >type of workload. I'd be surprised if the very first drop of IA-64 doesn't blast IA-32 out of the water. Intel has been hard at work on the IA-64 compiler for quite some time and they have a knack for things like that. (In fact, I have the 64 bit compiler but with no target handy I'm "all dressed up with nowhere to go.") If the IA-64 can't compete with IA-32 for a native 64 bit application, then I don't see how it could even compete with the Alpha architecture. But then again, these things are often not won by merit but rather by marketing clout. I am anxious to see a real system perform.
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