Hey, thanks for the critiques, a lot of them I don't really have a good answer for. A lot of these issues are not fully clear in my head (I haven't really CPU d

Hey, thanks for the critiques, a lot of them I don't really have a good answer for. A lot of these issues are not fully clear in my head (I haven't really CPU design either besides very basic college level VHDL stuff), and I'm not familiar with all of the current (or even past) research. A lot of my opinions come from my somewhat nebulous experience in the industry, and a lot of that is just what I've picked up from talking with people that would know (and that I'd rather not get too into on a public forum). There's definitely some hand-waving in there too, trying to be provocative and idealist :) I'm mostly a software/compiler guy, where I know there can be a whole lot of improvement (especially in mainstream tools, not just toy/research projects), but my impression is that hardware isn't much better off. You've given me some good pointers for further topics to research, though. My email is in my profile if you want to chat more about this stuff!