Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

[Leif Neland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sergey Babkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael C . Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

> Anothing interesting point is that the optimisation for IA-64
> seems to be highly processor-specific: the code optimized for
> Itanium won't be optimal for McKinley and vice versa.  I've heard
> an estimation of about 1.5 times speed increase due to the
> model-specific optimisation.
> 
Perhaps commercial software will need to come in (encrypted) source and be compiled to 
the the current processor...

Leif


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