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by chithanh
343 days ago
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VLIW is maybe cool, but people will be relieving themselves on EPIC's grave for the pain that it inflicted on them. Like if you tried to debug a software crash on Itanium. The customer provided core dump was useless as you could not see what was going on. Intel added a debug mode to their compilers which disabled all that EPIC so hopefully you could reproduce the crash there, or on other CPU architectures. Otherwise you were basically screwed. |
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That HP-Intel arrangement was weird. One time, an Intel-badged employee came out to change a tape drive on a (Compaq->HP->HPE) Compaq SSL2020 tape robot. Okay, I guess they shared employees. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯