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The Itanium folks actually put a lot of effort into tooling and compilers for the architecture, back in the early 2000s - even FLOSS tooling. The problem on tha
by zozbot123 8y ago
The Itanium folks actually put a lot of effort into tooling and compilers for the architecture, back in the early 2000s - even FLOSS tooling. The problem on that side was that a community never coalesced around Itanium, the way it did around e.g. amd64, or nowadays around riscv.
- jabl 8y agoIndeed, they put lot of effort into it, but the main problem was that they committed to the HW architecture with the expectation that compiler R&D would fix the even by then well-known issue of generating good VLIW code for general-purpose software. Turned out this was a fatal mistake, and compiler tech has yet to advance to the level they expected. RISC, while older, at least was informed by what real compilers actually liked (lots of GPR's, simple instructions).