> Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

Who wants to test it ? Preferably on real hardware. /s

Go away. We have (counting on fingers) ... enough money.

YMMV. I heard that they weren't able to count them correctly. And they might not even be there.

You need to preserve the oil. Else it is useless.

Cyrix 686 166 PR200 was flying in Linux.

> and thought that they needed a totally pro architecture (which Itanium was).

Was it though ? They made a new CPU from scratch, promissing to replace Alpha, PA-RISC and MIPS, but the first release was a flop.

The only "win" of Itanium that I see, is that it eliminated some competitors in low and medium end server market: MIPS and PA-RISC, with SPARC being on life support.

The deep and close relationship of Compaq with Intel meant that it also killed off Alpha, which unlike MIPS and PA-RISC wasn't going out by itself (Itanium was explicitly to be PA-RISC replacement, in fact it started as one, while SGI had issues with MIPS. SPARC was reeling from the radioactive cache scandal at the time but wasn't in as bad condition as MIPS, AFAIK)

I never used them but my understanding is that the performance was solid - but in a market with incumbents you don't just need to be as good as them you need to be significantly better or significantly cheaper. My sense was that it met expectations but that it wasn't enough for people to switch over.

Merced (first generation Itanium) had hilariously bad performance, and its built in "x86 support" was even slower.

HP-designed later cores were much faster and omitted x86 hardware support replacing it with software emulation if needed, but ultimately IA-64 rarely ever ran with good performance as far as I know.

Pretty sure it was Itanium that finally turned "Sufficiently Smart Compiler" into curse phrase as it is understood today, and definitely popularized it.

> trading cache for cores

Viva el Celeron

> for 2x performance

You wish.

Are people at Coudfare so young that they didn't heard about Celeron and Duron ?

No