Modern Microprocessors – A 90 Minute Guide
Frequent thing I see here on HN and many other sites is the immediate dismissal of VLIW... This sort of archtiecture has had a bad rap since it was first talked about (over 30 years ago now), to the present day. This is really encouraging me to write a post on why VLIWs have been unjustly shit on, and why what most people think of VLIWs (E.g. Itanium) is not a true VLIW.<p>At least the linked article gives a mostly fair (but very brief) description of VLIW, but then inappropriately compares it to Intel/HP's EPIC, which while inspired by VLIW, went so far off the rails, which in my opinion, led it to be a failed architecture.