Re: precise and imprecise, was catch and throw, was Is multi-level function return possible?

Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com>
Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:12:38 -0700

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From: Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:12:38 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
References: 14-03-065 14-03-068 14-03-070 14-03-076 14-03-077 14-03-081
Keywords: architecture, errors, comment
Posted-Date: 29 Mar 2014 01:17:09 EDT

On 3/28/2014 8:38 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:


> On the other hand, VLIW is pretty much dead. (I have an actual RX2600
> Itanium based system, though don't use it much.)


Alive and well and living with starlets in Vegas. "Starlets" is a
euphemism for "embedded"; TI, Philips and numerous other vendors will
tell you that rumors of the demise are greatly exaggerated. :-)


And wide-issue is coming to the general-purpose world too. The Mill,
while not actually a VLIW, is wide-issue like one.


[VLIW works great for signal processing if you know in advance exactly
the program you want to run, and better if you can tweak the code.
Please refer arguments about the merits of the Mill to comp.arch,
though. -John]


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