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To: Jason Hall who wrote (30444)	8/6/1998 10:52:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 97611

Jason - EPIC has some potential benefits, but it is so dependent on advanced compilers and skillful coders that it could misfire for a while until the advanced developers get the picture. Explicit parallelism has been around in theory for a long time, and the software problems have kept it from catching on. Alpha has the standard RISC benefit - it has a relatively simple instruction set and therefore can do a lot of parallel execution and prediction without hints from the compiler. Alpha has the additional benefit that most of the optimization is in hardware, so a new generation benefits old and new apps alike, with no recompile.