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This is the premise of the Mill architecture; though I haven't heard from them for a while now.

Really? The stuff I've seen about Mill is that they are doing a VLIW machine, which is a very different concept.

While I think that's true, it's also orthogonal to the 'belt' concept [1] they're using, which I think GP was referring to.

I'm also curious about the state of the Mill - judging by the forums on their website they've been basically dark for about a year and a half now, though Ivan Godard claims that everything is still moving along, just slightly slower than expected.

[1] https://millcomputing.com/docs/belt/

I don't know why the mill architecture has not gone into production yet. That technology has been in development for 13 years. It brings forth some interesting ideas. What is holding them back?

Isn't is a volunteer effort?

It is a startup though the degree of funding is not clear.

Last I heard (about a year ago), the degree of funding wasn't even enough to employ everyone working on it full-time - apparently it was essentially a hobby project for a long time. It might still be.

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