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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo (2004) by akira2501 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @06:05PM (#31089912)
> on every execution that could be done once in software at compile time

Which is to me, essentially, VLIW. Those architectures didn't work out very well. There's a lot of memory pressure just to move instructions around and the costs didn't seem to outweigh the benefits.

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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo (2004) by phamilton on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:35PM (#31092146)
The Mill CPU and architecture is a fascinating approach here. Who knows if we'll ever see a real piece of hardware from them, but as I understand it they require a compiler tuned to the exact cpu model to maximize on-die memory and other aspects.
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