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Re:Gentoo Linux Drops IA-64 (Itanium) Support – Gentoo Linux by rbanffy on Sunday August 18, 2024 @02:54PM (#41284454)
> That’s why VLIW is good for DSP

Maybe GPU usage as well. I know very little about what the ISA of GPUs looks like though.

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Re:Gentoo Linux Drops IA-64 (Itanium) Support – Gentoo Linux by magicalhippo on Sunday August 18, 2024 @03:19PM (#41284681)
AMDs GPUs did indeed use a VLIW ISA[1].

They moved to SIMD. Not sure what they're doing in their latest as I haven't been paying attention lately.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/4455/amds-graphics-core-next-...

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Re:Gentoo Linux Drops IA-64 (Itanium) Support – Gentoo Linux by colejohnson66 on Sunday August 18, 2024 @03:04PM (#41284547)
Even then, the ISA of GPUs is typically hidden behind the driver which recompiles shaders on-the-fly.
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