By: juanrga (nospam.delete@this.juanrga.com), October 25, 2014 2:34 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Patrick Chase (patrickjchase.delete@this.gmail.com) on October 24, 2014 1:27 pm wrote:
> ex-apple (ex.delete@this.apple.com) on October 23, 2014 2:32 pm wrote:
> > Also, it seems to suggest that the microarchitecture is a shallow in-order pipeline.
> > I'd guess VLIW?
>
> Time for a Linus Rant (tm).
>
> Seriously, I've spent a lot of time developing for VLIWs and believe that the approach can be unbeatable
> in the right applications. Those applications do not presently include application processors, however.
Doesn't Nvidia show that a DTSVLIW-like approach can work as generic CPU?
> ex-apple (ex.delete@this.apple.com) on October 23, 2014 2:32 pm wrote:
> > Also, it seems to suggest that the microarchitecture is a shallow in-order pipeline.
> > I'd guess VLIW?
>
> Time for a Linus Rant (tm).
>
> Seriously, I've spent a lot of time developing for VLIWs and believe that the approach can be unbeatable
> in the right applications. Those applications do not presently include application processors, however.
Doesn't Nvidia show that a DTSVLIW-like approach can work as generic CPU?
