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Linus: Praying for Hammer to Win

Posted by chrisd on from the thems-fighting-words dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The boys at Intel can't be happy with the latest opposition to the IA-64 instruction set. According to this Inquirer scoop, Linus himself has weighed in, and it appears he's putting his eggs in the x86-64 basket. In the original usenet post, he goes so far as to say that 'We're ... praying that AMD's x86-64 succeeds in the market, forcing Intel to make Yamhill their standard platform.'"

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  1. Transmeta vs. IA-64 by Animats · · Score: 1, Redundant
    He's praying that he doesn't have to try to implement "code morphing" for the Inanium instruction set.

    The OS problems for IA-64 are minor, but the compiler problems are very tough.