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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (55010)	4/9/1999 6:52:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1583707

Gopher, Thanks for your response. I have been making those same arguments over on the Intel thread, and have encountered a small amount of hostility ;^) Scumbria

To: Gopher Broke who wrote (55010)	4/10/1999 2:10:00 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583707

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. I think you are correct about the software and compiler technology being the most difficult part. From what I've read though, the most brilliant compiler minds in the world are working on IA-64 compilers. I believe they can solve most of the problems. Between the people at HP, Sun, SGI and this guy's recent graduates, crhc.uiuc.edu you should not bet against the problems being resolved. crhc.uiuc.edu Miscellaneous articles. techweb.com interex.org eetimes.com I don't think IA-64 will be a mainstream solution for many years, but it will make serious waves at the high-end. Bob