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The failure of the Itanium highlights the danger of tilting too much complexity into the software / compiler space. It was very difficult to make a compiler whi
by bhawks 4y ago
The failure of the Itanium highlights the danger of tilting too much complexity into the software / compiler space. It was very difficult to make a compiler which could generate parallelizable machine code and that lead to very disappointing performance for most software.
- pjmlp 4y agoIt only failed, because of AMD being allowed to come up with AMD64. If x86 was Intel only, Itanium would have been eventually pushed everywhere no matter what.