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Subject: Re: 64-bit machines

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 17:29:24 02/08/03

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I wrote some Visual C CRT code for IA-64, and it was not hard at all. Actually
it's much simpler than writing x86 assembly code.

Hard part is to force the *compiler* use some architecture features. But human
can do it easily.

Thanks,
Eugene

On February 08, 2003 at 17:15:20, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On February 07, 2003 at 23:29:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Go back 30 years to the HP 2100 micro-programmable machine.  The
>>micro-instructions were similar in concept with the IA64 in a gross way,
>>yet we had students programming that machine with no problems.  It is different.
>>It requires a bit of "new thinking".  But multiple instruction parcels in a
>>single long word is not _that_ bad...
>
>It's not just multiple instructions in one word.
>
>Have you done any IA-64 programming yourself or talked with someone who has?
>Because everybody I know who has has one thing to say about it: it's such a pain
>that you shouldn't bother trying.
>
>-Tom



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