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gohan2021

Could someone write a hardware program specifying more execution resources than what is available on the actual CPU hardware? I would imagine it would cause a compile time error when hardware program is compiled into the logical units, because there aren't sufficient hardware resources available to the design specified by the hardware language.

gklimias

@gohan2021 you most definitely could, however, the number of execution units is barely ever a bottleneck in modern CPUs.

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