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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (59384)10/19/2001 6:47:45 PM
From: wanna_bmwRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Gopher Broke, Re: "Changing one line of code in the compiler is as risky as a processor core revision and requires as many years of verification."

No offense, but that's bull. If every compiler enhancement took years of verification, we'd never see new compiler releases. The fact is that depending on how fundamental the change is, it could take a lot of time to test the improvement with all the legacy code out there, but one of the advantages of IA-64 is that all the code is fairly new, anyway. Testing changes in the compiler should take much less effort than for an x86 compiler.

wanna_bmw



To: Gopher Broke who wrote (59384)10/19/2001 7:02:44 PM
From: TenchusatsuRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
Gopher, <Changing one line of code in the compiler is as risky as a processor core revision and requires as many years of verification.>

Not true.

Tenchusatsu


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