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Subject: Re: Query for stats on instruction usage
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Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 00:46:16 EST
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Nf-From: inmet!stern    Nov 28 11:26:00 1984

[I'm not a librarian]

Good places to look to find answers to these questions:
(1) Fairclough, Dennis A.  "A Unique Microprocessor Instruction Set"
    _IEEE_Micro_ 2:2 (May 1982) : 8-18
(2) Guterl, Fred. "Chip Architecture: A Revolution Brewing"  _IEEE_Spectrum_
    20:7 (July 1983) : 30-37
(3) Kleir, RL and CV Ramamoorthy, "Optimization Strategies for Microprograms"
    _IEEE_Transactions_on_Computers_  C-20:7 (July 1971) : 783-794
(4) Myers, Glenford J. _Advances_in_Computer_Architecture.  New York: John
    Wiley and Sons, 1978.  Several sections on instruction frequency in both
    static (ie what the compiler produces) and dynamic (how often they are
    executed) situations.

Good bed time reading.

--Hal Stern
  Intermetrics, Inc.
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