Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>the question is: is itanium processor overadvertised and is it jsut piece
>of crap, or linux for IA64 is piece of crap?
>  
>
I'm pretty sure it's the former.  It's hard for an OS to screw up a CPU 
bound
program.  (Unless you do something really crazy like turning off caches, but
that would make it even slower.)

    -- Lennart