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A comment on Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V. Parent comment

Re:Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witche... by baq on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @10:24AM (#41367890)
All fine except Itanium happened and it goes against everything you list out...?
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Re:Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witche... by pjc50 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @11:16AM (#41368512)
Itanium was not in any sensible way RISC, it was "VLIW". That pushed a lot of needless complexity into compilers and didn't deliver the savings.
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