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> Today even Russia have managed to produce a VLIW architecture and a good enough compiler

Do you have a citation for the “good enough” claim? In particular the listed peak performance appears to be below a modern phone's and, far more importantly, we'd need robust benchmark data to know that it's not following the Itanium cycle where a few very favorable, possibly hand-tuned, benchmarks manage to approach the theoretical maximum but most real-world code is substantially lower.




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