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by gregw2 880 days ago
This makes a lot of sense to me, thanks for boiling it down. Compilers can predict the code instructions coming up decently, but not really the data coming up, so VLIW doesn't work that well compared to branch prediction and speculative and out of order execution complexities which VLIW tried to simplify away on branching-heavy commercial/database server workloads. Does that sound right?