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Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language

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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
> And IA-64, which was designed for extremely sophisticated compiler
> technology, has the register stack, which is a more flexible version
> of register windows.  Register windows may not help much in SPEC CPU,
> but programs that are actually used are compiled with separate
> compilation, use dynamic linking and indirect calls (e.g., virtual
> function calls), and even sophisticated compilers are quite limited in
> their register allocation capabilities under these circumstances.

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i#56 Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language

with regard to engineers leaving for other companies after various
internal 801 efforts were canceled

... a couple old emails regarding people leaving (and asking if i
would go also)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#email811006
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#email811006b
in this previously referenced post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#65 801

itanium wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium

one of the people is (also) credited with retrofitting "access
registers" to 3033 as dual-address space, doing a lot of 801 stuff then
leaving and doing risk for another vendor ... and then of the main
people behind wide-word and i64. misc. past posts:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#84 Is a VAX a mainframe?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#57 Why not an IBM zSeries workstation?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#18 Black magic in POWER5
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#28 [Meta] Marketplace argument
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#29 [Meta] Marketplace argument
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#39 What happens if CR's are directly changed?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#1 About TLB in lower-level caches
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#67 How the Pentium Fell Short of a 360/195
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#60 Different Implementations of VLIW
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#6 Is it time to stop research in Computer Architecture ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#2 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#10 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#17 New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

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Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language jsavard@excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid (John Savard) - 2011-07-15 00:24 +0000
  Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-07-15 08:36 +0100
    Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-07-15 18:05 +0100
  Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-07-15 08:14 +0000
    Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2011-07-15 10:32 +0000
      Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2011-07-15 10:18 -0400
      Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-07-15 16:30 +0000
        Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2011-07-15 14:26 -0400
    Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) - 2011-07-15 14:26 +0200
      Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2011-07-15 15:59 +0200
    Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language jsavard@excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid (John Savard) - 2011-07-15 13:48 +0000

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