Comment Re:Writing has been on the wall (Score 1) 170
Yes, but the difference is that on Itanium you can explicitly tell the CPU to rotate its register file. The result effectively is register renaming, and it can be used for software pipelining. See e.g. slide 7 of
http://www.gelato.org/pdf/Workshops/geneva05/compi ling_itanium_muthu.pdf.
