[monocasa]

You didn't generally need to manage the ALAT as a programmer.

You can, in the same way that you can manually manage reservation station port residency as a programmer in an OoO core to get maximum throughput, but neither of those are required in normal programming.

[eigenform]

Sorry, when talking about things from the hardware's point of view, I'm in the habit of using the word "programmer" to also mean "the compiler"!