Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-entropy!dataio!gtenmc!stumpf From: stumpf@gtenmc.UUCP (Jon S. Stumpf) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Evolutionary instruction sets Message-ID: <605@gtenmc.UUCP> Date: 22 Feb 90 00:11:13 GMT References: <688@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> Organization: GTE Telecom Inc., Bothell, WA Lines: 13 In article <688@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>, mshute@r4.cs.man.ac.uk writes: > What became of the idea of dynamically evolving instruction sets? > > I first saw the idea described in Myers (1982). > ("Advances in Computer Architecture") > Have dynamically evolving instruction sets ever been attempted or implemented on a system? Maybe in a software simulation to gather statistics? -- jss - Jon S. Stumpf