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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (59915)5/28/1999 12:15:00 PM
From: grok  Read Replies (2) of 1574004
 
Re: <It is relatively easy to design wide VLIW or superscalar hardware. The (impossibly?) hard part is writing compilers which can use the hardware efficiently.>

Of course, but the compilers have already been in work for 5 years. By the time IA-64 goes mainstream they will have been in work for 9 years. It is really not too hard to conceive of it happening as long as you don't expect it immediately.

Also, don't disregard the fact that IA-64 is a new architecture which was designed in conjunction with new compiler technology. In other words, don't expect 4 more years of compiler technology to help x86 much.
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