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The shift to Linux happened around the same time, and few people would bother with anything else but GCC. It might have might made a difference if the Gelato Fe
by fweimer 4y ago
The shift to Linux happened around the same time, and few people would bother with anything else but GCC. It might have might made a difference if the Gelato Federation had arrived earlier, with more funding, and a mandate to conduct generic toolchain maintenance, in addition to Itanium-specific work. Kind of what Linaro does today. I think Gelato was way too late, and I don't recall it being particularly impactful (but it's been a long time ago, sorry).
- rbanffy 4y agoThe shift to Linux was a bit too late. By the time it happened, Itanium was lagging behind, with Intel resources relocated to match AMD’s 64-but x86 offensive. Maybe, with enough resources Intel and the FOSS community would be able to get the smart compilers an JIT optimisations that could have made EPIC a competitive architecture.