Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:11:39 09/14/01
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On September 14, 2001 at 18:17:30, Dan Andersson wrote: >Hammer x86-64 is rumored to run IA32 code at very high IPC (and really high >clock speeds), thus obviating the need for a special compiler (in the short >term). And the 64 bit architecture adds new registers as well as making them 64 >bit, alleviating the register starvation and extending the amount of directly >accessible memory. But hard facts will be available at the MPF2001 in october. >The Hammer could be all that the P4 is not. Unless a compiler is written to take care of the 64 bit nature of the extended registers, it will be all dressed up with nowhere to go.
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