By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), February 5, 2013 2:51 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Richard Cownie (tich.delete@this.pobox.com) on February 4, 2013 5:52 pm wrote:
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> Conversely, porting to Itanium (which was narrowly avoided ...) would have meant
> spending money on a relatively expensive workstation, not useful for anything else,
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The key word is "relatively".
According to my understanding, by now you can find decent Itanium gear (HP rx2620, or even rx2660, if you got lucky) on eBay for less than the price of new developer-grade PC.
> and then having to port all the performance-sensitive executables, even those which
> didn't need >4GB, to have anything shippable.
>
After you ported to Linux/x64, shouldn't porting to Linux/IPF be close to "just recompile"? Esp, if the same code already runs on SPARC?
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> Conversely, porting to Itanium (which was narrowly avoided ...) would have meant
> spending money on a relatively expensive workstation, not useful for anything else,
>
The key word is "relatively".
According to my understanding, by now you can find decent Itanium gear (HP rx2620, or even rx2660, if you got lucky) on eBay for less than the price of new developer-grade PC.
> and then having to port all the performance-sensitive executables, even those which
> didn't need >4GB, to have anything shippable.
>
After you ported to Linux/x64, shouldn't porting to Linux/IPF be close to "just recompile"? Esp, if the same code already runs on SPARC?
