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Red Hat Releases x86_64 Technology Preview, GinGin

Posted by Hemos on from the trying-it-out-the-new-stuff dept.

HTMLSpinnr writes "Red Hat announced today it's release of GinGin64, a "Technology Preview" (read: not beta) of Red Hat's AMD64 technology. You can grab a copy here or at one of Red Hat's various mirrors. Though the version number listed in the release notes is 8.0.95, inside sources say it's based on Red Hat 9 plus some updates."

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  1. Great by CausticWindow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Anybody know about any (realatively new) versions of Linux for Itanium that one could benchmark this against? Preferably free of charge?

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  2. Is it worth it? by AlistairGroves · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So how big are the performance gains? And does this make it worth holding out for the Athlon 64 proccessors?

  3. recompile by dpilot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But how good would a recompile for Itanium with gcc really be? I've been under the impression that the only really decent compiler for IA64 came from Intel/HP. It's a tough target to compile for.

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