On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 06:12:56AM -0600, Russell Reiter wrote:
As a language pedant or peasant, (I never know how to truly label myself so I usually leave that to others) I wonder what free really means. Free Open Source Software, looks easy enough to understand, but in truth what is free. Free stuff, Free radicals, Free willy; the list of usage and mis-usage of free is endless.
TANSTAAFL we all pay the piper in one way or another.
When word magic is so prevalent in marketing, how do you shake out the spin and find the stable core of logic.
IBM's VLIW Architecture exploits Instruction Level Parallelism and has been touted as the natural successor to RISC. However it is the manner in which you bundle primitive words together in ordinary day to day language which affects the experiential outcome of the listener.
Well intel has tried using VLIW 3 times now, and (mostly) failed 3 times. Only seems to have ever been successful in DSP designs (hence the "mostly" for intel, with the i860 being fairly successful in DSP use, but not as a general purpose CPU). -- Len Sorensen