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What makes you think this would be easier to parallelize than a traditional application? Just because there is only one kind of instruction used doesn't mean they don't still have to come in the right order!


What makes you think this would be easier to parallelize than a traditional application?

Exactly such an idea was proposed for parallel signal processing quite a while back, actually. Look up One Instruction Set Computer.


I don't see any material online indicating that programs written for one-instruction-set-computers are more parallelizable than programs written for traditional computers. In fact, here is someone claiming the opposite:

> The disadvantage of an MISC is that instructions tend to have more sequential dependencies, reducing overall instruction-level parallelism.

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1m...


Also note that the idea didn't take off.




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