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To: muzosi who wrote (122858)	8/23/2000 12:46:01 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1578460

Muzo, I was not asking about VLIW in general, but the VLIW which is the executed code in a Transmeta CPU. Transmeta does the "compilation" from x86 to VLIW meta-code on the fly, so I don't think the TM is like a traditional VLIW processor with "many execution units." Rather, it has very few execution units and is quite simple. Therefore the translation to VLIW metacode does not have to be that complicated. As an example of simplicity, it may share the same ALU for doing address computations and for doing integer arithmetic. I hope Scumbria sees this and makes a comment. Petz