By: dc (a.delete@this.b.c), November 25, 2010 12:22 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Richard Cownie (tich@pobox.com) on 11/22/10 wrote:
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>someone (someone@somewhere.com) on 11/22/10 wrote:
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>>Poulson will blow past issues 1, 2, and 3 with a vengence.
>>It will have much higher performance than Tukwila in the
>>same socket power. Will its perf/W be better, comparable,
>>or worse than Westmere-EX or Power7+? Only time will tell.
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>The next Itanium will be good ? Didn't we hear that
>already every damn year from about 1998 to 2010 ?
>
>The question is whether you have any remotely convincing
>technical argument why an ISA designed about 15 years ago
>would offer a compelling advantage over the alternatives:
>a proposition which seems very implausible.
>
To be fair the competing ISA's are even older. Though those competitors have been continuously tweaked and expanded while IA64 has been more or less static.
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>someone (someone@somewhere.com) on 11/22/10 wrote:
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>
>>Poulson will blow past issues 1, 2, and 3 with a vengence.
>>It will have much higher performance than Tukwila in the
>>same socket power. Will its perf/W be better, comparable,
>>or worse than Westmere-EX or Power7+? Only time will tell.
>
>The next Itanium will be good ? Didn't we hear that
>already every damn year from about 1998 to 2010 ?
>
>The question is whether you have any remotely convincing
>technical argument why an ISA designed about 15 years ago
>would offer a compelling advantage over the alternatives:
>a proposition which seems very implausible.
>
To be fair the competing ISA's are even older. Though those competitors have been continuously tweaked and expanded while IA64 has been more or less static.