understanding EPIC

Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt at mac.com
Sat Jul 31 03:24:50 UTC 2010


On Jul 30, 2010, at 7:20 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

> I've been doing some reading on compilers
> for ia64 EPIC (see my list below). I think
> I'm starting to understand just how hard
> it is to get a compiler to squeeze the most
> of ia64.

Yup...

> I cannot find any paper on compiler
> development for ia64 later than 2005.
> Has anybody got a link to a later development?

I haven't really looked, but I suspect it will be
touch to get high-quality papers.

> Also, is Gelato (aka IMPACT, OpenIMPACT -
> http://www.gelato.org, http://gelato.uiuc.edu) dead?

Probably. It wasn't too active 4 years ago. It was mostly
a corporate involvement IIRC.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com





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