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Re:Is it time for open processors? by lambda on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:27PM (#16190458)
That's fair. I have never worked with them, so I don't know the precise details; but one of the big complaints I've heard was that compilers weren't ready for them yet, while these days there's now a larger field of open source compilers and has been a lot more research in parallelism.
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Re:Is it time for open processors? by jasonwatkinspdx on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:05PM (#16194815)
> compilers weren't ready for them yet

Yeah, compilers today are no better. We found the limits of statically scheduled parallelism pretty fast. On code that uses static scheduling, a modern OoO processor can easily duplicate what IA64 was capable of (and a pipelined loop using AVX will utterly smoke it), while being far better at all the stuff IA64 failed at.

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