Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>>     I'm talking about the AMD64 (= x86-64) MegaPOV binary here.  On the
>> other hand the (x86) povlinux binary can indeed run on the Itanium (AFAIK
>> the current Itanium supports x86 instructions, but it won't be true in 
>> the
>> next generations that will require emulation via the IA-32 Execution 
>> Layer).
> 
> This is not correct. They all emulate x86.

To be more precise, older versions have the emulator in microcode with 
software support, while newer versions will have it in software only. Either 
way, it is known to be extremely slow, and the microcode emulator only 
supports IA-32.

	Thorsten

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