Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:11:43 06/23/01
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On June 22, 2001 at 21:37:01, Dann Corbit wrote:
>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.
there are already extensive IA64 tests on the internet, one
review is very interesting:
Jun 11, 2001 The Battle in 64 bit Land Revisited - by Paul DeMone
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?Section=Columns&Subject=Insider
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