alt Hacker News> The ia64 is a very demanding architecture. In tomorrow’s entry, I’ll talk about some other ways the ia64 will make you pay the penalty when you take shortcuts in your code and manage to skate by on the comparatively error-forgiving i386.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040120-00/?p=40... "ia64 – misdeclaring near and far data"