An Empirical Analysis of the Lilith Instruction Set

Authors:
Robert P. Cook
Affiliations:
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Year:
1989

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Abstract

A static analysis of the instructions used to implement all of the system software on the Lilith computer is described. The results are compared to those of a similar analysis performed on the Mesa instruction set architecture. The data provide a good illustration of how code generation strategies and language usage can affect opcode statistics, even for machines with similar architectures.