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To: L. Adam Latham who wrote (137594)	6/19/2001 9:45:58 AM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear L. Adam Latham: This, "There are certain coding conventions that simply require human tweaking when porting to 64-bit operating systems, regardless of the compiler", is pure BS. Alpha, PA-RISC, and other 64 bit CPUs have no problem compiling the suite. What it means is that Intel is not having much luck building good compilers for IA-64. Just what people were saying years ago. If you change the code, SPEC really has completely given in to the manufacturers of systems and become completely worthless in comparing systems. The original idea of taking an off the shelf compiler, compiling the suite on your box and comparing your results to other platforms, has been totally blown up. It just shows how worthless SPEC has been at standing up to major OEMs about sticking to the rules. If Ct's results are typical, by the original rules, IA-64 would receive a score of 0 (geometric averages do that if you can't run one of the parts of the suite). Pete