From: "David Kågedal" <david@virtutech.se>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: Itanium gets supercomputing software
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:50:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705487@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705464@msgid-missing>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-12 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-11 7:51 [Linux-ia64] Re: Itanium gets supercomputing software David Kågedal
2003-04-11 20:49 ` Duraid Madina
2003-04-11 22:08 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-11 22:54 ` Duraid Madina
2003-04-11 23:05 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-12 15:50 ` David Kågedal [this message]
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