Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow
by pjmlp on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:08AM
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I haven't said that, I said that I am a firm beliver that Itanium would have prevailed without AMD being able to push their AMD64 alternative.
Maybe compilers would get better, maybe Itanium would have needed some redesign, after all it isn't as if a Raptor Lake Refresh execution units are the same as an Xeon Nocona, yet both execute x64 instructions.
Maybe compilers would get better, maybe Itanium would have needed some redesign, after all it isn't as if a Raptor Lake Refresh execution units are the same as an Xeon Nocona, yet both execute x64 instructions.