[plug] ia64 linux = P4? & general Q re speed and if anyone has tried it

[John Knight]

Yes, it's the Itanium processor and yes, it's 64 bit. AMD are soon to 
release a 64 bit chip too.

As for speed, the chips is supposed to be around the same as a similarly 
clocked P3/P4 for normal applications but a lot faster for optimised 
programmes. This is due to its new EPIC architecture (Explicitly Parallel 
..... something or other!), which departs completely from intel's former 
RISC architecture.

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> > I believe 'ia64' is for the Intel P4 chip. Is this correct?  Are
> > there real speed advantages?  Has anyone tried it?
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>I'm not 100% sure but I'm under the impression ia64 is for intel's
>64bit processors called iatanium or something. It's definately
>something to make sure of. I'm pretty sure that P4 are still x86
>architechure.
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>Paul
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