• DocumentCode
    1108505
  • Title

    Measures of Op-Code Utilization

  • Author

    Foster, Caxton C. ; Gonter, Robert H. ; Riseman, Edward M.

  • Author_Institution
    IEEE
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1971
  • fDate
    5/1/1971 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    582
  • Lastpage
    584
  • Abstract
    The static and dynamic utilization of a set of machine op-codes is examined. Two measures of the effective use of machine instructions are discussed and applied to samples of hand-coded programs and object code.
  • Keywords
    Gibson mix, information measure, instruction set, op-code frequency, op-codes, programming, programming style.; Assembly; Central Processing Unit; Code standards; Costs; Frequency measurement; Hardware; Information theory; Large scale integration; Particle measurements; Programming profession; Gibson mix, information measure, instruction set, op-code frequency, op-codes, programming, programming style.;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-C.1971.223296
  • Filename
    1671889