I think it is a false equivalence to say that STM and HTM are like VLIW (which has been been a resounding success for DSP workloads). I am not defending VLIW.

I think it is a false equivalence to say that STM and HTM are like VLIW (which has been been a resounding success for DSP workloads). I am not defending VLIW. Transactions are extremely powerful conceptually, to be composable and not cause flapping requires a higher level of coordination.