Yeah. If you can do a good job predicting in advance how long long a given memory access is going to take then VLIWs work pretty well. Many applications have

Yeah. If you can do a good job predicting in advance how long long a given memory access is going to take then VLIWs work pretty well. Many applications have predictable memory access patterns and can perform very well with in-order processors. Decoding an MP3, say. Just not stuff like a web browser or word processor.