> > Itanic > > The newest Itanium seems to be an improvement: It can hardly be worse (well, it could; it could be a respray of Merced). Still, this was a case where HP got too far ahead of itself; compiler technology still doesn't do a good job with EPIC-VLIW instruction sets, and the "hard limit" of one instruction per cycle hasn't really been all that bad in practise as CPUs get more efficient and more of them exist in one system.
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