Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: Ivan Godard Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: precise and imprecise, was catch and throw, was Is multi-level function return possible? Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:12:38 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-03-083@comp.compilers> References: <14-03-065@comp.compilers> <14-03-068@comp.compilers> <14-03-070@comp.compilers> <14-03-076@comp.compilers> <14-03-077@comp.compilers> <14-03-081@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1396070229 20941 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (29 Mar 2014 05:17:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 05:17:09 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: architecture, errors, comment Posted-Date: 29 Mar 2014 01:17:09 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1205 On 3/28/2014 8:38 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: > On the other hand, VLIW is pretty much dead. (I have an actual RX2600 > Itanium based system, though don't use it much.) Alive and well and living with starlets in Vegas. "Starlets" is a euphemism for "embedded"; TI, Philips and numerous other vendors will tell you that rumors of the demise are greatly exaggerated. :-) And wide-issue is coming to the general-purpose world too. The Mill, while not actually a VLIW, is wide-issue like one. [VLIW works great for signal processing if you know in advance exactly the program you want to run, and better if you can tweak the code. Please refer arguments about the merits of the Mill to comp.arch, though. -John]