Aside, if you've had an interest in the Itanium processor, and the very long instruction word sound familiar, that's because it's one of the most famous, widely

Aside, if you've had an interest in the Itanium processor, and the very long instruction word sound familiar, that's because it's one of the most famous, widely used example. If memory serves, the compilers never really caught on. The assumption was that they would eventually figure out how to leverage the explicit parallelism efficiently, but it never materialized as a performant solution for most problems.