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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Petz who wrote (59955)5/28/1999 3:51:00 PM
From: grok  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574052
 
Re: <I agree with Scumbria that compilers for VLIW will never live up to their potential with the current programming paradigm.>

I suggest that you actually look at IA-64 sometime. Here is the link:
developer.intel.com

Please read and discover that IA-64 is not VLIW.

Re: <However, I think that multiple CPU's in a computer (multiprocessing) is ultimately more efficient than attempting to run multiple micro-threads in a single CPU.>

Of course, there is nothing to prevent both. If you do have MP then it is also a good idea to have each processor have high performance too.



To: Petz who wrote (59955)5/28/1999 5:42:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574052
 
John,

However, I think that multiple CPU's in a computer (multiprocessing) is ultimately more efficient than attempting to run multiple micro-threads in a single CPU

Which is why Intel will not be able to kill their own x86 beast so easily.

Scumbria


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