Having 3 input operands is definitely an issue. In the Alpha EV6 architecture, it was decided only 2 inputs are supported, so a CMOV would need to be split into

Having 3 input operands is definitely an issue. In the Alpha EV6 architecture, it was decided only 2 inputs are supported, so a CMOV would need to be split into two actual instructions, the first of which setting the 65th bit of one of the operands to the result of the test and the other selecting the correct output. Thus, CMOV had 2 cycles latency and still required extra hardware resources to implement.