On 1/26/07, Levi Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyway, the EPIC idea behind the Itanium is certainly an interesting one, though I fear that the increasing move towards dynamic languages could cause even more problems with an architecture that relies so much on smart compilers.--Levi
???, I would think that "high-level" languages would have a major advantage in these cases. Porting your language runtime would be a beast, but once you've done so, all of the software written in that language would be usable and optimized for the target arch. The people who are more likely to feel the pain are low-level language users. You have to port your compiler and then you have to port a large portion of the software written in said language. Apple did an amazing job moving Aqua from PPC to x86_64, but it still took infinitely longer than a dynamic language would take (that is, it would take 0 seconds to port). In this example the compilers/interpreters/runtimes already existed for both platforms so that factor doesn't apply. -Bryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
