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baq on Aug 27, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the...

All fine except Itanium happened and it goes against everything you list out...?

pjc50 on Aug 27, 2024 [–]

Itanium was not in any sensible way RISC, it was "VLIW". That pushed a lot of needless complexity into compilers and didn't deliver the savings.

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