Chapter 15. Compilers in the Itanium/EPIC Architecture World
“With the capabilities in the Trimaran [compiler], you are able to go in an aggregate large chunks of code, and kind of undo the modularity that we've all been told in computer science is a good thing. That gives you a broader base from which to compile, so that you can understand and put more code together.”
—Tom Christian, HP Labs Scientist, in Electronic Engineering Times
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The Intel Itanium[33] processor family comes as a milestone in the continuing evolution of microprocessors. It is the first enterprise-class 64-bit processor that has the power to become pervasive because of its aggressive price/performance ratio. A number of its awesome performance characteristics come from its ability to use the new, explicit forms of parallelism under its EPIC architecture and from its strong, optimized compilers.
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