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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by zlynx on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:30PM (#16970585)
There were hand-coded assembly loops that were 3-4 times faster than x86, using Itanium's predicates and rolling register windows.

But I guess you said mainstream. So unless you count database engines, I suppose the answer is "No."

Today you can get the same vector performance using SSE4 and AVX. Almost all of Itanium's good stuff has been rolled into Xeon.

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