> And so you fall into the pit of tar and despair that is relying on Sufficiently Smart Compilers. Same one that couldn't save Intel's shiny new IA-64 architecture (the "Itanic").
And how can one get their hands on an Itanium machine? It's a dead architecture in less than two weeks, and for the last decade the things have been almost exclusively enterprise machines; not something the hobbyist (or even the academic!) is likely to get access to.
Do you have an HP zx6000 lying around, perchance?
Itanium failed early; it had many more problems than compilers. And if we don't have a replacement, we'll never get those compilers from anyone but the most obsessed.
