Will Prime95 be rewritten to run on the Itanium, when it comes out? Seems to
me like 64-bit operation will speed it up significantly, as will the insane
amount of registers and floating point units and all the other
microprocessor
whatnot that I'm not current on. A review (thanks, Stefan Struiker!) of the
Itanium mentions, "The CPU will then switch to 32-bit mode on the fly and
carry on as if it were a more powerful PIII or Willamette. This all happens
because the Itanium supports the IA-32 instructions natively.... All
software
has to be rewritten to take advantage of the IA-64 architecture." So
Prime95
will run on an Itanium, but a "Prime64" might be even better and wickedly
faster. With what I'm learning about programming, it seems that more
registers are always a good thing, especially for memory-intensive processes.
STL
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