After his recent conversion to the VLIW cause a few months ago, Thomas Sohmers brings us some new insights.

• Shockingly, he's had to look beyond supercomputing for additional interest.


• He claims to have cracked all the problems of VLIW...


• ... using something that sounds specifically like PGO.


• ARMv8 "sucks" due to being "bloated" and being used in out-of-order cores - which are "a very bad thing if you have real ILP and DLP." Also, it has "abysmal" floating-point performance.


• Power will be dead in five years.


• PGO also fixes scratchpads. Caches suck!!!!!!!!!

Sigh.

http://www.theplatform.net/2015/07/22/supercomputer-chip-startup-scores-funding-darpa-contract/