From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David =?iso-8859-1?q?K=E5gedal?= Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:50:20 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: Itanium gets supercomputing software Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Duraid Madina 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. --=20 David K=E5gedal, Virtutech