Static grouping of small objects to enhance performance of a paged virtual memory
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Microprogrammable processor for object-oriented architecture
ISCA '86 Proceedings of the 13th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Microcoding an object-oriented instruction set
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
Encapsulation and inheritance in object-oriented programming languages
OOPLSA '86 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Object structure in the Emerald system
OOPLSA '86 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Swamp: a fast processor for Smalltalk-80
OOPLSA '86 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Using prototypical objects to implement shared behavior in object-oriented systems
OOPLSA '86 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Inheritance and synchronization in concurrent OOP
European conference on object-oriented programming on ECOOP '87
Dynamic grouping in an object-oriented virtual memory hierarchy
European conference on object-oriented programming on ECOOP '87
The duality of memory and communication in the implementation of a multiprocessor operating system
SOSP '87 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM Symposium on Operating systems principles
801 storage: architecture and programming
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A programmer's view of the Intel 432 system
A programmer's view of the Intel 432 system
Extending the operating system to support an object-oriented environment
OOPSLA '89 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Performance effects of architectural complexity in the Intel 432
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
An object oriented architecture
ISCA '85 Proceedings of the 12th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
HYDRA: the kernel of a multiprocessor operating system
Communications of the ACM
The design of an object oriented architecture
ISCA '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Architecture of SOAR: Smalltalk on a RISC
ISCA '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
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We describe the rationale for the design and the architecture of a Memory Management Unit (MMU) for object-oriented systems. The CAMOES1 MMU supports arbitrary size protected objects mapped on a single virtual address space. Support for object invocations is provided in the form of an operations cache closely coupled with the addressing hardware. The MMU only executes in hardware those functions crucial for performance; other functions and, namely, the management of internal buffers and associative memories, and object management policies, are handled in software. This functional organisation is suitable for current generation processors based on RISC principles and is able to support open multi-lingual environments.