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To: Joe NYC who wrote (96146)	3/1/2000 8:16:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) of 1576610

Joe, Isn't this one area where Itanium may have an advantage, in that you pack several instructions into one 64 bit chunk of data? IA64 is still a load-store architecture, so the effective code density will not be as good as x86. This is because a separate instruction is required for a load and an execute, whereas x86 instructions can do both in a single instruction. I'm guessing that IA-64 code density is somewhat better than most RISC processors, but let's not forget that VLIW stands for "very long instruction word". Scumbria

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