> WRT Itanium and all VLIW processors for that mater, you have to compile for the microarchitecture of the processor to fully take advantage of it True of cour

> WRT Itanium and all VLIW processors for that mater, you have to compile for the microarchitecture of the processor to fully take advantage of it True of course, but Itanium did think of this and had an "abstracted" VLIW where you worked with generic instruction bundles which the hardware was then more free to pull apart in different ways underneath. I do wonder, if we'd all taken a different path, if we'd be in more of a JIT-compiled type world. who knows?