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It is not so much that it is cyclical than VLIW being good for numerical/DSP stuff with more predictable memory access and terrible for general computation. Ita
by gpderetta 3y ago
It is not so much that it is cyclical than VLIW being good for numerical/DSP stuff with more predictable memory access and terrible for general computation. Itanium was ok at floating point code, but terrible at typical pointer chasing loads.