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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


      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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