Satan: hey welcome, here's your cubicle
Sinner: oh this is... surprisingly normal?
Satan: yeeeahhhh... your first project is to work on creating a new Rust compiler
Sinner: Ah.
Satan: ...for the Itanium platform
Sinner: ...ahh...
Satan: ...on the Itanium platform
Sinner: ...ahhhh...
Satan: ...and you need to achieve 100% optimization for the output
Sinner: ...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

In technology there is a relentless drive for Faster, Better, Cheaper. Of the three we often get to pick only two. Then Intel revealed the Itanium and told the world to pick NONE. This is due to a deep, fundamental design flaw in the entire architecture as a whole, but most people don't completely understand what it is, why it is important, and how Intel managed to get it so, so wrong.

Today on Education Yourself, we will be looking at the mechanism that makes processors as fast as they are, and how Itanium messed it up so badly that it is now the laughing stock of CPU design.