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by gpderetta 529 days ago
I'm sorry, but if P5 was VLIW then the word has lost all meanings. They couldn't possibly be more different.
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The point was exactly that "VLIW" as a term has basically no meaning. What it "means" in practice is parallel in-order dispatch (and nothing about the instruction format), which is what I said upthread.