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Re:Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700 by userbinator on Saturday May 13, 2017 @12:01PM (#14331588)
The overhead of padding 2/3 possible instructions with NOPs doesn't happen with "sequential CPUs". They extract parallelism only when and if it occurs.

Even the most "sufficiently advanced" compiler can't parallelise everything.

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