Re:Don't get no respect! (Score 1)

I've spent some time writing C code on VLIW architectures, and I've seen pretty decent optimizing compilers there [I haven't used Itanium, I used a couple of less-known arechitectures, e.g. TI 64xx]. You can extract a decent amount of parallelizm out of a regular code (if you think about it, since Pentium II you had a dual issue processor, you've just moved this piece of logic into the compiler). I do agree with you on the pricing issue -- as long as it costs more than any x86 processor, it will be irrelevant. However, AMD is a significantly better option, at leas for the nearest future.