Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!stern From: stern@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Query for stats on instruction usage Message-ID: <1842@inmet.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 00:46:16 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1842 Posted: Fri Dec 7 00:46:16 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 03:41:27 EST Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:talcott:-13400:inmet:2500013:000:792 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. {ihnp4, harpo, esquire, ima}!inmet!stern