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A Dataflow architecture ISA would. It's been tried before. But, working out the entire software stack from scratch is a moonshot.
by yvdriess 5y ago
A Dataflow architecture ISA would. It's been tried before. But, working out the entire software stack from scratch is a moonshot.
- formerly_proven 5y agoHigh-performance processors are data flow processors, which infer the data flow graph from the instruction stream using Tomasulo's algorithm.
- yvdriess 5y agoThe backend is very dataflow like, yes. But, the dependencies are only tracked within a tight instruction windows, the retirement (esp. of stores) are ordered to implement the memory ordering constraints of the processor and last but not least: the ISA itself is not Dataflow.