Not in general, VLIWs work great in DSP architectures like the Hexagon. They tend to fall down in the presence of unpredictable memory accesses, though, and wh

Not in general, VLIWs work great in DSP architectures like the Hexagon. They tend to fall down in the presence of unpredictable memory accesses, though, and while Itanium had facilities to try to mitigate that they didn't work well enough.