It was worse than that. The archives of comp.lang.arch have a lot of detailed discussions on the gory details, including participation by senior designers at In

It was worse than that. The archives of comp.lang.arch have a lot of detailed discussions on the gory details, including participation by senior designers at Intel among others. Itanium 2 did finally get reasonable performance, but only by adding back in dynamic scheduling to the microarchitecture. (This is all in terms of fundamental benchmarks that are not x86 specific).