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From: holmer@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Bruce K. Holmer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: (query) analytical measures of instruction set architectures
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Date: 6 Feb 90 08:18:46 GMT
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I would like references to papers or theses describing analytical
measures of various characteristics of instruction set architectures.
For example, there has been much talk about RISC/CISC, but has anyone
come up with a numerical measure of instruction set complexity?  Other
interesting instruction set parameters include traditional terms such
as regularity, orthogonality, and composability.  Again the question
is whether someone has proposed a method for computing numerical
quantities for these parameters.

Thanks,
--Bruce

holmer@ernie.berkeley.edu
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