Itanium did as well but then to no avail. It had direct support for modulo loop scheduling. Also, register renaming (which is temporal) is useful for software p

Itanium did as well but then to no avail. It had direct support for modulo loop scheduling. Also, register renaming (which is temporal) is useful for software pipelining. I think the Mill people should concentrate on what VLIW has had some success with in the past: embedded. There will be tears if they go after general purpose.