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VLIW means Very Large Instruction Word. It is a property of the instruction set, not of the processor that implements it. You could have a VLIW ISA that is imp
by atq2119 2y ago
VLIW means Very Large Instruction Word. It is a property of the instruction set, not of the processor that implements it.
You could have a VLIW ISA that is implemented by a processor that "unrolls" each instruction word and mostly executes the constituent instructions serially.
- tliltocatl 2y agoAlso you can have out-of-order VLIW. Later Itaniums were like that, because turns VLIW doesn't help much with random memory access latency.