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The Mill CPU (http://millcomputing.com/ http://millcomputing.com/) seems to be going down both those routes- it's a very in-order, VLIW-like design with some tw
by Rusky 12y ago
The Mill CPU (http://millcomputing.com/ http://millcomputing.com/) seems to be going down both those routes- it's a very in-order, VLIW-like design with some tweaks to make it work well with typical OOE workloads, including several ways to make the encoding much smaller.
- faragon 12y agoIt looks interesting. The VLIW with OoOE approach will make sense, may be they will follow that path, some day. In my opinion Industry has not yet reached global adoption of that because of having still some room for enhancements, being the macro-ops from Intel/AMD the last bullet in that regard. IMO, if not explicit VLIW ISA, current ISAs (x86 and ARM) will follow a de facto VLIW transcoding, like Transmeta did back in the day (they had no OoOE VLIW, but in-order VLIW, in order to reach their power comsumption goals).