Recommendations...

[Jerry Feldman]

On 06/15/2010 02:22 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
>> The X86_64 benchmarks beat the IA64 in many cases.
>>     
> They did not call the IA64 architecture the "Itanic" for nothing.
>
> To be fair, a lot of the libraries for X86_64 have probably had a lot
> more eyes go over them and more optimizations done than for the IA64,
> particularly for Linux.
>
> On the other hand, I just do not agree with Ultra-Wide Instruction Sets,
> and they do not agree with me.
>
>   
>> Graphics performance is also better in 64-bit mode.
>>     
> May have other reasons than just larger virtual address utilization, but
> noted.
>
>   
I personally prefer the PDP-8 approach :-)

But, I agree, the IA64 was really targeted to very large multi-CPU
servers. It may one day be successful when they start issuing 100+ core
CPU chips.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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