[Info-vax] RealWorldTech on Poulson

[Neil Rieck]

http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT051811113343

Quote: General Purpose VLIW is Dead
Quote: "Poulson is a radical departure from the initial Itanium
philosophy, and takes into account years of experience, and technology
and market changes. Poulson abandons the idea of simple hardware
controlled by the compiler and is the first dynamically scheduled
Itanium design, with modest out-of-order execution."

Translation: Itanium will become more Alpha-like

Quote: "Itanium's performance lead over SPARC based rivals from Oracle
and Fujitsu will only grow, as Intel leapfrogs to 32nm."

Comment: that is probably why Oracle said they would no longer develop
for new Itaniums.

NSR