[Linux-ia64] Re: Itanium gets supercomputing software

["David Kågedal" <david@virtutech.se>]

Duraid Madina <duraid@octopus.com.au> writes:

> I guess I was being a bit subtle.
>
> I'm well aware there are things you can do with a simulator that you
> can't do with hardware. Like test your code against what's supposed to
> happen, not what actually happens. ;)
>
> My point wasn't that software simulators are useless, but that
> software simulators _should_ be useless **4 years** (!!) after the
> public availability of hardware.

Why is that?  There are numerous reasons for using simulators to
develop software, especially low-level software (OS, drivers, firmware
etc.)  You get things like full system visibility, non-intrusive
debugging, deterministic repeatability, fault injection, and more.

-- 
David Kågedal, Virtutech