@johnregehr Found another tidbit about the PlayStation 3’s superoptimizer, if you’re interested https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21733922 …
Doesn’t sound fun :(
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I know some older GPUs like VideoCore IV (Raspberry Pi) use VLIW
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I think to some extent it became unclear a sufficiently smart compiler was even possible for several VLIW problems. Like moving branch prediction into the compiler requires fundamentally rethinking some styles of software development.
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right. there must have been some major bad shit going on in that gcc backend is my guess.
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