VLIW performance is highly dependent on the compiler. A number oftechniques such as loop unrolling, speculative execution, branch predictionare critical. Typical VLIW processors are limited to 4-way...

VLIW performance is highly dependent on the compiler. A number of techniques such as loop unrolling, speculative execution, branch prediction are critical. Typical VLIW processors are limited to 4-way to 8-way parallelism.Also low portability (why?).