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Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Having gone through the transition (1-wide IO, 2-wide IO, 6-wide OoO)
>> the OoO machine was simply less complexity--or to say it a different
>> way--the complexity was more orderly (and more easily verified).

> I tend to think of it a bit like the transition from using overlays and
> segments to the use of on-demand paging.

Who (in their right minds) would go back from paging to overlays ???

{Although many people enjoy driving Model Ts ...}


>         Stefan