9 Oct
2002
9 Oct
'02
12:47 p.m.
Ross Archer wrote:
It surely takes a great deal of inspiration, creativity,
and engineering talent to take something as ill-suited
as the x86 architecture and get this kind of performance
out of it. IMHO.
In other words, making x86 fast must be a lot like
getting Dumbo off the air. That ought to count as
some kind of technical achievement. :)
Just take a RISC core, translate all your CISC instructions
to RISC, and tell your marketing to avoid saying anything about RISC ;-)
Imagine if the same amount of effort was applied
to a sensible machine, like MIPS, Alpha, or ARM!
Or even a 64 bit-wide Z80 :)
Oh, intel is trying ;-)
To put the same effort in the IA-64. But still doesn't fly.
And, as a side note, they probably get itanium earlier to
classiccmp than to general market. Cooking for 9 years already ;-)
cheers