Full software scheduling breaks down on the first data cache miss. Combined with typically much larger icache foot-prints, VLIW just never lives up to the promi

Full software scheduling breaks down on the first data cache miss. Combined with typically much larger icache foot-prints, VLIW just never lives up to the promise. I agree they could be useful for DSPs because the icache problem isn't as severe as general purpose software like a compiler or word-processor.