Title :
Techniques of Program Execution with a Writable Control Memory
Author :
Liu, Philip S. ; Mowle, Frederic J.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Miami
Abstract :
The objective of the present paper is to investigate possible methods to reduce a program´s execution time by detecting and converting automatically the more frequently executed program parts, mostly inner loops, into microcode.
Keywords :
Detection schemes; Fortran programs; inner loops; performance improvement; simulation; writable control memory; Automatic control; Computational modeling; Frequency conversion; Gain measurement; Hardware; Read-write memory; Registers; Size control; Statistics; Testing; Detection schemes; Fortran programs; inner loops; performance improvement; simulation; writable control memory;
Journal_Title :
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TC.1978.1675201