On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 06:12:56AM -0600, Russell Reiter wrote: > As a language pedant or peasant, (I never know how to truly label > myself so I usually leave that to others) I wonder what free really > means. Free Open Source Software, looks easy enough to understand, but > in truth what is free. Free stuff, Free radicals, Free willy; the list > of usage and mis-usage of free is endless. > > TANSTAAFL we all pay the piper in one way or another. > > When word magic is so prevalent in marketing, how do you shake out the > spin and find the stable core of logic. > > IBM's VLIW Architecture exploits Instruction Level Parallelism and has > been touted as the natural successor to RISC. However it is the manner > in which you bundle primitive words together in ordinary day to day > language which affects the experiential outcome of the listener.
Well intel has tried using VLIW 3 times now, and (mostly) failed 3 times. Only seems to have ever been successful in DSP designs (hence the "mostly" for intel, with the i860 being fairly successful in DSP use, but not as a general purpose CPU). -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
