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VLIWs[0] and trace scheduling[1] were both from the early 1980s.

Dependence analysis, automatic vectorization, and automatic parallelization were invented after 1971.

Fast algorithms for computing dominators[2] were late-70s.

Graph coloring register allocators were introduced in the early 1980s.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_long_instruction_word

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace_scheduling

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominator_(graph_theory)