Clearly most of the processor design features I outlined and proposed were speculative. E.g., at IBM's Watson lab, in the room next to mine a guy was looking a

Clearly most of the processor design features I outlined and proposed were speculative. E.g., at IBM's Watson lab, in the room next to mine a guy was looking at traces from deep in the processor hardware to estimate the speedups possible from various proposed and speculative features. He did this work because it is not easy to estimate, just from intuition, what features will give what speedups. The VLIW data I reported was from some careful work by a guy across the hall from me. Net, what I was proposing was not just wild guessing. So, you are explaining that some of what I proposed has already been implemented. Okay.