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The Itanium processor did exactly this. Other than being a commercial flop, it was found to be quite difficult to actually get the compiler to generate good man
by tathougies 9y ago
The Itanium processor did exactly this. Other than being a commercial flop, it was found to be quite difficult to actually get the compiler to generate good management instructions, and x86 was often able to beat out an itanium core at the same clock speed
- hexane360 9y agoIt seems like x86 exists at a local maxima, and Itanium didn't go far enough away to find a different peak.