Computer instruction set usage by programmers: an empirical investigation

Authors:
Neal S. Coulter;Norman H. Kelly
Affiliations:
Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL;IBM, Boca Raton, FL
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
1986

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Abstract

The elimination of unused instruction sets would encourage more uniform programming practices and could allow the inclusion of more useful instructions.