Chapter 15. Compilers in the Itanium/EPIC Architecture World

“With the capabilities in the Trimaran [compiler], you are able to go in an aggregate large chunks of code, and kind of undo the modularity that we've all been told in computer science is a good thing. That gives you a broader base from which to compile, so that you can understand and put more code together.”

—Tom Christian, HP Labs Scientist, in Electronic Engineering Times

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