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Intel tried that (Itanium, with a variation of VLIW called EPIC). Didn't go so well. It was more like Epic Fail. They poured a lot of money into the compiler.
by snvzz 4y ago
Intel tried that (Itanium, with a variation of VLIW called EPIC). Didn't go so well. It was more like Epic Fail.
They poured a lot of money into the compiler. It didn't work out.
Again and again, complexity is proven cancerous. RISC is the way to go.
- _0w8t 4y agoItanium tried to move branch prediction to the compiler from CPU. Plus it’s failure was not necessary related to CPU design, it can well be a bad business execution. The grandparent comment is about a compiler generating multiple code copies for different CPU architecture iterations not to support all legacy instructions or at least to allow to implement those via microcode emulation in later CPUs.