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>>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember looking at some of the initial
>>specs for the Intel 860 and that thing looked like a nightmare to write
>>a compiler for.  Forget about optimizations, just getting floating
>>point results out of the FP pipeline, requires that the compiler have
>>knowledge of the internals of the hardware.
>
>This is true,

This is not true; the i860 has non-pipelined FP instructions that
don't require any knowledge of the pipeline.  Of course, if you
use them, you don't get the performance....