Already as of this date has multiple of the
leading server and workstation suppliers announced their plans to incorporate IA-64
processors in their servers and workstations. Some of these companies are Microsoft, Adobe
and IBM.
Today's processor architectures compilers
create sequential machine code that attempts to imply parallelism to the hardware. Then
must the processor's hardware reinterpret the machine code and try to identify
opportunites for paralell execution. Paralell execution is the mainly key to higher
performance and the better the processor can do this the faster it is. This process is
inefficient not only because the hardware doesn't always interpret the compiler's
intentions correctly, but also because it uses valuable die area that could be better used
to do real work ( like executing instructions).
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