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Agreed: 'compiler technology' was a marketing promise/excuse over the fact that for any real-world problem, even the best possible code could not come near to t
by kps 10y ago
Agreed: 'compiler technology' was a marketing promise/excuse over the fact that for any real-world problem, even the best possible code could not come near to the theoretical hardware performance. Intel had previously made the same mistake with the i860 but didn't learn from it.
- sp332 10y agoSo the hardware didn't match the workload and they blamed the compiler? That sounds plausible. I think they oversold the use cases for the Itanium though, they made it sound more like a general-purpose server CPU. The Mill might not be general-purpose either but they seem to be more honest about its niche (it's basically a DSP that happens to support general computation). Maybe that will be enough for it not to be a disappointment.