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To: Scumbria who wrote (59289)	5/22/1999 5:09:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) of 1572978

I am confused as to how EPIC helps multi-threading. All it does is help the hardware to perform better by putting the onus on the compiler to rearrange the instructions for better pipelining of a single execution instance. Multi-threading, as I understand the term, means different execution instances and I don't see how EPIC help here, except that making a single thread run faster obviously helps. I have not heard anyone suggest that the three co-packaged instructions could be associated with different threads. So servers will still be multithreading in the same way when running EPIC instructions.

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