Author: Will Singleton
Date: 12:35:22 12/07/99
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From a news release today on Yahoo: ---------------- The development of Intel Corp.'s new 64-bit Itanium processor has reached a major milestone with the shipment of prototype systems to developers, according to a company official. In addition, early test results show the new processor exceeding performance predictions. "I can't underestimate the magnitude of the accomplishment of being able to deliver development systems for this within three months of first silicon [i.e., building an initial sample chip]," said Ron Curry, director of marketing for Intel's I-64 processing division. "I think that's a really strong indicator of how things are going." ---------------- Must be a pretty small accomplishment. :) Will On December 07, 1999 at 12:17:56, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >IA-64 has 128 integer registers that are visible to the application. Of those >part will be used to generate addresses in memory (as the only addressing mode >is register indirect with possible postincrement/postdecrement), but even taking >that into account you'll have A LOT OF registers. > >Eugene > >On December 07, 1999 at 04:12:20, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>Intel says a lot about how many registers the "Itanium" has, but they only make >>a small fraction of them available to the user. The design is supposed to be >>really great because when it gets to a branch, it can start working on both >>paths while the branch condition is still being evaluated. You can imagine this >>sucks a lot of registers... >>
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