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moonchild on March 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: How web bloat impacts users with slow devices

VLIW (Itanium is a VLIW arch) is what's contentious, not multiprocessing.

yawaramin on March 17, 2024 | [–]

OK I missed that. Thanks. But it looks like Itanium was only tangential to this discussion, in that Knuth thinks multicore programming may be an even worse mistake than Itanium.

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