[Cryptography] [FORGED] Re: Speculation considered harmful?

[Peter Gutmann]

John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> writes:

>VLIW isn't just wide microcode.  It's a combination of wide instructions with
>compilers that use aggessive techniques to keep the hardware controlled by
>wide instructions busy.

I think you mean:

  VLIW isn't just wide microcode.  It's a combination of wide instructions
  with compilers that no-one can ever quite manage to write that take
  advantage of them.

There's a good reason why vendors went deep rather than wide to make things go
fast, it was, and still is, the easiest way to get performance.

Peter.