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To: Ali Chen who wrote (51758)	3/6/1999 9:20:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572981

Ali, I see some problem with this statement. It seems apparent that if a processor heavily relies on explicit parallelizm that supposed to be dispatched by a special compiler, the design must be much simplier since you do not need to dig deep into the stream of stupid instructions to uncover internal parallelizm on the fly What makes Merced so complicated is the fact that it has to execute both x86 and EPIC instructions at high performance. The x86 code is not touched by the EPIC compiler. The other big dual instruction set boondoogle was the Power PC 615. Scumbria