Re:How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?
by zlynx on Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:23PM
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I bet the Office software was riddled with C++ undefined behavior. The Alpha was one of the closest CPUs to the mythical Deathstation 9000 which will destroy you if you make even one mistake in your code.
Like Itanium, compiling for Alpha with -O3 would expose you to large amounts of bugs in your code and bugs in the compiler too.
Like Itanium, compiling for Alpha with -O3 would expose you to large amounts of bugs in your code and bugs in the compiler too.