Top "Itanium" questions

IA-64 Itanium (not to be confused with x86-64 / AMD64) is a family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors based on VLIW with explicit instruction-level parallelism, in which the compiler decides which instructions to execute in parallel.

What is the difference between x64 and IA-64?

I was on Microsoft's website and noticed two different installers, one for x64 and one for IA-64. Reference:Installing the .…

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Assembly registers in 64-bit architecture

Following the answer about assembly registers' sizes: First, what sizes are eax, ax, ah and their counterparts, in the 64-bit …

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How to test if your Linux Support SSE2

Actually I have 2 questions: Is SSE2 Compatibility a CPU issue or Compiler issue? How to check if your CPU or …

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What do x86_64, i386, ia64 and other such jargons stand for?

I frequently encounter these terms and am confused about them. Are they specific to the Processor, or the Operating System, …

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What 64bit target to choose when compiling with Visual Studio (vcvarsall.bat)?

The vcvarsall.bat that does setup de build environment let you choose between x86 | ia64 | amd64 | x86_amd64 | x86_ia64. …

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