Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
Or let's put it this way: Would AdaCore have the resources to support two entirely different backends. Would it even want to hire new engineers or let its existing work-force learn compiler internals of another compiler to support just one target? I don't think so.
The answer is simple, depends on $$$ as with most other things. In practice I don't think our ia64 customers are that performance sensitive, at least not so far.