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To: Scumbria who wrote (55006)	4/9/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1582531

As a software developer I understand something of the IA64 architecture and continually find myself wondering how such a complex system can be viable. I have no doubt that it is faster to execute a "correct" application. The problem is that it will take a quantum leap in development tools to be able to generate this "correct" code to run on the IA64 architecture. I have never come across a system of any size that could be ported to a new hardware platform with just a recompile. But that means you have to debug it, probably at the machine code level. But it will be an order of magnitude harder to comprehend the machine code for IA64 than for x86. So if Intel has made a quantum leap in compiler/debugger technology for IA64 then why haven't we heard about it? My guess is that Intel fooled themselves as to their ability to write the support structure for IA64 and the delays are actually nothing to do with the hardware but are about getting the wonderful hardware to actually run real software.