Intel and .NET
Intel releases new programming tools. The chipmaker releases new programming tools designed to increase the performance of software written for its Pentium, Xeon and Itanium processors. [CNET News.com] These payware compilers, available from Intel, are not for .NET, but the VTune Performance Analyzer does profile .NET apps. I'm not 100% sure on this, but I believe that it will be Intel (and not Microsoft) that makes a hyperthreading CLR available at some point. Intel is not the best at getting the word out about their development tools, so regularly browse their developer site or stay tuned here. [ Thinking in .NET via Sam]
Ages ago Intel started working out a new processor architecture ("Merced" aka Itanium) based on the idea that compilers could do a lot of the scheduling work that the current processors do, and thus achieve higher speeds. In the meantime the software world decided that JIT compilation is a good thing, and that the more work the silicon can do the better. Building a JIT compiler targeting the Itanium core is probably going to be pretty challenging and it only seems natural that Intel would be doing work in this area. I've heard rumors of Intel doing a CLI implementation but have yet to see anything concrete. The closest things I've seen are their OCL (a half-finished set of BCL classes) and has their ORP research platform based around Java. I wouldn't be surprised to see an Intel CLI in 2003 but who knows - Intel is pretty unpredictable in the software space.
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