> fair number of smart folks who are in the know view VLIW as something that was tried and failed, so they're dismissive of new designs which use VLIW. Snapdra

> fair number of smart folks who are in the know view VLIW as something that was tried and failed, so they're dismissive of new designs which use VLIW. Snapdragon based phones have multiple Hexagon DSPs, they're VLIW that are also a commercial reality. It's fair to say that there's a lot fewer folks who know how to write hexagon assembly than other architectures but you could play this optimization game w/it too.