ia64 projects

[dewar@gnat.com]

<<I suspect that we aren't generating enough ILP to really take advantage
of the architecture.  So improving optimizations that create ILP might be
a good first step.  Perhaps some code replication would be useful.  Or perhaps
improving predication/speculation support would help.  I would expect that
>>

Conventional wisdom for these kinds of architectures would say that you
have no hope of generating enough ILP if you do not do speculation.
Trace scheduling + speculation seems really required to extract the
promise of EPIC architectures of this kind.

SOunds like there are a LOT of opportunities here. It is probably worth
taking a close look at what is going on in the Trimaran project.