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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by chasil on Sunday July 12, 2020 @09:04PM (#23816134)
ARM essentially toyed with VLIW with Thumb and Thumb2.

As I understand it, these were influenced by SuperH, a 32-bit RISC design that uses 16-bit instructions, so two are always executing at once.

The busybox-armv7m Thumb2 binary is the smallest of all the compiled architectures.

Thumb2 appears to have been much more practical.

Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by theresistor on Sunday July 12, 2020 @09:40PM (#23816360)
There’s nothing VLIW-like in Thumb or Thumb2. It’s just a more compact encoding.
Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by repiret on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:14PM (#23816541)
VLIW stands for Very Long Instruction Word, not variable length.