Microprocessor architectures: a comparison based on code generation by compiler

  • Authors:
  • Niklaus Wirth

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut fu¨r Informatik, Zu¨rich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

By carefully tuning computer and compiler, it is possible to avoid the otherwise inevitable compromises between complex compiling algorithms and less-than-optimal compiled code, where the key to performance appears to lie neither in sophisticated nor drastically reduced architectures, but in the key concepts of regularity and completeness.