Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

t's factors like this that allow the Opteron to do so well, even on existing 32-bit code.

So the Itanium submission ran a 32-bit JVM, eh? And it still outperformed Opteron? Well,
what does that say about Itanium 32-bit performance?

I doubt that this JVM was an x86 application. The 32 bits probably refers to the fact that
the JVM supported 32 bit addressing internally. Like 64 bit RISC ISAs, IPF does support
32 bit pointers if the designers of a toolchain choose to support it.