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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Memory bank conflicts
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Date: 11 Mar 88 17:48:24 GMT
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Stride usage of arrays
It was closer to 80% of Fortran Loops.  It was Knuth's 1971
Empirical Study of Fortran paper in Software Practice and Experience
required reading for all computer students in my opinion.
BTW: this is not completely an architecture paper, but still should be
studied.  Also a motivation for RISCs.

I disagree with your opinion about separating algorithms from architectures
from the standpoint of studying them, but I have to agree that posting
pure algorithm stuff in the architecture group is wasting bits.

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