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To: Gary Ng who wrote (78446)	11/3/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: Saturn V	Respond to of 1577007

Ref-<From a practical point of view, won't TLP be more difficultto implement as that requires the entire 'program' to be designed with multi-thread in mind whereas in ILP, it is thecompiler that will take over the toughest job ?> You are absolutely correct. Software will have to completely rewritten to benefit from TLP. Lots of applications will never benefit from TLP, but graphics and multimedia can benefit if rewritten completely. However servers will benefit immediately from TLP, with probably small changes to the software. So TLP will show up in servers first. Merced with ILP will benefit all applications, without extensive coding. So in the short term Merced should be a winner, although it may have competiton in its primarly target market, servers. In the longer term if the TLP software recoding problem becomes manageable, even Itanium may include TLP also.