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[DewDiligence]

wbmw: thanks for your detailed response. Your analysis is thorough except in one area: you overlooked what TMTA’s code-morphing (CMS) software is capable of adding to the mix.

It is the CMS which has the responsibility of assuring that the VLIW is able to exploit parallelism.

Although I admit that the 2.8X figure I cited (Astro throughput relative to TM5800) is merely a theoretical bound, the throughout advantage of Astro vs the TM5800 in practice should be better than your analysis suggests. Regards, Dew