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> >>This leads to another thought. Are there any Ada implementations
> >>targeted to the Itanium chip? Are any in the works. This chip seems
> >>like a good home for Ada.

Florian Weimer:

> I doubt it.  Ada with its explicit loops might enable compilers to
> generate better code than they do now for C, but looking at the
> benchmarks, it seems as if the Itanium is a FORTRAN processor.

For the benchmarks it is quite usual that they are in Fortran,
since this language normally has the best optimizing compilers.
Is it a reason to conclude that the CPU is a "Fortran processor" ?

G.