1. IA-64
A joint HP-Intel team designed the IA-64 Processor instruction set architecture with parallelism in mind. ... Every new innovation in computing "distributed computing on the Internet, data mining, Java programming, and multimedia data streams "requires more cycles and computing power. ... That goal is to expose, enhance, and exploit ILP in today's applications to increase processor performance. ... Those that remain affect both the processor at runtime and the compiler during compilation. ... For example, load instructions may attempt to reference data to which the progr...
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