OOO hw vs SW&in-order hw

By: no thanks (no.delete@this.thanks.com), September 27, 2009 3:47 pm
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Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) on 9/27/09 wrote:
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>The fact that Tomasulo is 40 years old doesn't make it bad
>or uninteresting. Quite the reverse. It makes it all the
>more disappointing that you still have idiotic people out
>there that try to do in-order crap, and even design their
>whole architecture around in-orderness, when people have
>known how to do better for so long.


Does this line of thinking extend so that you now think doing Transmeta style translation machines are the wrong thing to do? That is, should OOO be only done in hardware rather than runtime software on an in-order uarch?
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              OOO hw vs SW&in-order hwLinus Torvalds2009/09/28 05:22 AM
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                          3- and 4-issue in-order CPUsGian-Carlo Pascutto2009/09/29 11:35 PM
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                    OOO hw vs SW&in-order hwPun Zu2009/10/02 01:44 AM
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                samplesWilco2009/09/28 12:51 AM
                  samplesAM2009/09/28 03:16 AM
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              Thoughts and questions on the Cortex A9none2009/09/27 11:52 AM
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                  Atom to stay in-oder or go OoO?a reader2009/09/28 09:15 AM
                    Atom to stay in-oder or go OoO?anon2009/09/28 06:25 PM
                  Atom to stay in-oder or go OoO?AM2009/09/30 02:32 AM
                    Atom to stay in-oder or go OoO?baxeel2009/09/30 07:25 AM
                      Atom to stay in-oder or go OoO?AM2009/09/30 10:12 PM
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                      Atom to stay in-oder or go OoO?AM2009/10/01 04:08 AM
                        Atom to stay in-oder or go OoO?anonymous2009/10/01 04:33 AM
                          Atom to stay in-oder or go OoO?AM2009/10/03 06:24 AM
                        Atom to stay in-oder or go OoO?Pun Zu2009/10/02 12:30 AM
                        Atom to stay in-oder or go OoO?Ungo2009/10/02 12:11 PM
                          Atom to stay in-oder or go OoO?AM2009/10/03 06:22 AM
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                                        Atom to stay in-oder or go OoO?anonymous2009/10/06 06:58 AM
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                                                      let's see...AM2009/10/09 04:52 AM
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                                Why Cortex A9?none2009/09/30 09:40 AM
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                                      ARM architectural licenseRichard Cownie2009/10/01 07:21 AM
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                                    Why Cortex A9?slacker2009/10/02 01:41 AM
                                      Why Cortex A9?Richard Cownie2009/10/02 09:28 AM
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