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To quote David Kanter at Realworldtech

> Poulson is fundamentally different and much more akin to traditional RISC or CISC microprocessors. Instructions, rather than explicitly parallel bundles, are dynamically scheduled and executed. Dependencies are resolved by flushing bad results and replaying instructions; no more global stalls. There is even a minimal degree of out-of-order execution – a profound repudiation of some of the underlying assumptions behind Itanium.

https://www.realworldtech.com/poulson/

Given the large amount of security problems OoO has caused, there is a chance that we may revisit the experiment in the future with a less rigid attitude and greater success.



Thanks, that’s a really great article. It does change my views significantly.




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