Originally posted by vladpetric
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The Transmeta CPU is acutally an x86 CPU with a VLIW front end exposed all the hardware around the VLIW core including the registers is essentially an x86 CPU. The whole point was to get ride of hardware implementations of things that could be done in software *better* and with lower power use. Modern CPUs get around some of this by clock gating inactive silicon... another advantage of VLIW is you can implement fast paths for all the instructions at low cost... since implementing an instruction is the job of the software. On the contrary intel tends to force instructions to be slow to try to get people to stop using them.
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