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> compilers weren't ready for them yet Yeah, compilers today are no better. We found the limits of statically scheduled parallelism pretty fast. On code that u
by jasonwatkinspdx 9y ago
> compilers weren't ready for them yet
Yeah, compilers today are no better. We found the limits of statically scheduled parallelism pretty fast. On code that uses static scheduling, a modern OoO processor can easily duplicate what IA64 was capable of (and a pipelined loop using AVX will utterly smoke it), while being far better at all the stuff IA64 failed at.