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An experiment to improve operand addressing

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Robert P. Cook,

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Issue 4

Pages 87 - 91

https://doi.org/10.1145/960120.801830

Published: 01 March 1982 Publication History

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MCODE is a high-level language, stack machine designed to support strongly-typed, Pascal-based languages with a variety of data types in a modular programming environment. The instruction set, constructed for efficiency and extensibility, is based on an analysis of 120,000 lines of Pascal programs. The design was compared for efficiency with the instruction sets of the Digital Equipment PDP-11 and VAX by examining the generated code from the same compiler for all three machines. In addition, the original design choices were tested by analyzing the generated code from 19,000 lines of StarMod programs. As a result of this iterative experiment, we have summarized our observations in an efficient reorganization of the VAX's addressing modes.

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An experiment to improve operand addressing
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Parallel architectures
      1. Very long instruction word
    2. Serial architectures
      1. Complex instruction set computing
      2. Reduced instruction set computing

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 17, Issue 4

Proceedings of the 1982 symposium on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems

April 1982

209 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/960120

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ASPLOS I: Proceedings of the first international symposium on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
March 1982
209 pages
ISBN:0897910664
DOI:10.1145/800050
Chairmen:
David R. Ditzel,
Lloyd I. Dickman

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Hill D(1983)An analysis of C machine support for other block-structured languagesACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News10.1145/641596.64159711:4(6-16)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1983
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Hor TYuen C(1985)The design and programming of a powerful short wordlength processor using context-dependent machine instructionsACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News10.1145/1296930.129693213:1(12-26)Online publication date: 1-Mar-1985
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1296930.1296932

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