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correct me if i am wrong but isn't that what was tried with the Intel Itanium processors line, only the smarter compilers and assemblers never quiet got there.
by smegger001 1y ago
correct me if i am wrong but isn't that what was tried with the Intel Itanium processors line, only the smarter compilers and assemblers never quiet got there.
what makes it more likely to work this time?
- PhilipRoman 1y agoOptimizing compiler technology was still in the stone age (arguably still is) when Itanium was released. LLVM had just been born and GCC didn't start using SSA until 2005. Egraphs were unheard of in context of compiler optimization. That said, yesterday I saw gcc generate 5 KB of mov instructions because it couldn't gracefully handle a particular vector size so I wouldn't get my hopes up...