[SunRescue] 5 major manufacturers?

[dave at cca.org]

nick at snowman.net writes:

>VLIW is a cool idea, but it requires you to put all your trust in the
>compiler. 

Yep. It also wastes memory bandwidth. I think the plusses outweigh
those problems.

>That's what I understand really really killed the I860.  

It had some problems. Exception handling was pessimal, apparently.
It performed well in the high-end SGI graphics boards though!

>The
>Itanic is a very similar basic design.  We'll see how well it works this
>time.

Yeah, but it seems that Intel managed to muck it up. Some people
are claiming that HP's version will be a lot cleaner. I hope so.

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