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It such a fascinating topic and the story is far from over. VLIW (maybe not EPIC though) has tremendous power efficiency so sometimes it’s the right trade-off
by FullyFunctional 4y ago
It such a fascinating topic and the story is far from over. VLIW (maybe not EPIC though) has tremendous power efficiency so sometimes it’s the right trade-off (say, if you can cover latencies by switching to another hyper-thread).
Micro-architecture is still a hot topic and everything is a trade-off. Next I’ll start talking about super scalar OoO stack machines …
- fanf2 4y agoWere there any superscalar stack machines other than the inmos T9000 transputer? (It’s a bit of a cheat, though, because the transputer has a very limited stack, and the T9 worked more like a register machine, treating the very short local addressing mode as a register number)