Computer programming and architecture: The VAX
Computer programming and architecture: The VAX
An analysis of a mesa instruction set using dynamic instruction frequencies
ASPLOS I Proceedings of the first international symposium on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
A case study of VAX-11 instruction set usage for compiler execution
ASPLOS I Proceedings of the first international symposium on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
DIAMOND a digital analyzer and monitoring device
PERFORMANCE '80 Proceedings of the 1980 international symposium on Computer performance modelling, measurement and evaluation
An instruction timing model of CPU performance
ISCA '77 Proceedings of the 4th annual symposium on Computer architecture
A SIMULATOR OF MULTIPLE INTERACTIVE USERS TO DRIVE A TIME-SHARED COMPUTER SYSTEM
A SIMULATOR OF MULTIPLE INTERACTIVE USERS TO DRIVE A TIME-SHARED COMPUTER SYSTEM
Analysis and performance of computer instruction sets.
Analysis and performance of computer instruction sets.
Highly concurrent scalar processing
ISCA '86 Proceedings of the 13th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
A microcode-based environment for noninvasive performance analysis
MICRO 19 Proceedings of the 19th annual workshop on Microprogramming
Branch folding in the CRISP microprocessor: reducing branch delay to zero
ISCA '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
An evaluation of branch architectures
ISCA '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Characterization of branch and data dependencies on programs for evaluating pipeline performance
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Integer multiplication and division on the HP precision architecture
ASPLOS II Proceedings of the second international conference on Architectual support for programming languages and operating systems
Measurement and evaluation of the MIPS architecture and processor
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Integer Multiplication and Division on the HP Precision Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special issue on architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Measuring VAX 8800 performance with a histogram hardware monitor
ISCA '88 Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Symposium on Computer architecture
An efficient pipelined dataflow processor architecture
Proceedings of the 1988 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
The Clipper processor: instruction set architecture and implementation
Communications of the ACM
The design and development of a dynamic program behavior measurement tool for the Intel 8086/88
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
Machine Characterization Based on an Abstract High-Level Language Machine
IEEE Transactions on Computers
An analysis of MIPS and SPARC instruction set utilization on the SPEC benchmarks
ASPLOS IV Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Branch history table prediction of moving target branches due to subroutine returns
ISCA '91 Proceedings of the 18th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Modeling and measurement of the impact of Input/Output on system performance
ISCA '91 Proceedings of the 18th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Solutions Relating Static and Dynamic Machine Code Measurements
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Avoiding unconditional jumps by code replication
PLDI '92 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1992 conference on Programming language design and implementation
The structure and performance of interpreters
Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
A characterization of processor performance in the VAX-11/780
25 years of the international symposia on Computer architecture (selected papers)
LISP on a reduced-instruction-set-processor
LFP '86 Proceedings of the 1986 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming
The contribution to performance of instruction set usage in System/370
ACM '86 Proceedings of 1986 ACM Fall joint computer conference
Dhrystone: a synthetic systems programming benchmark
Communications of the ACM
A Comparison of RISC Architectures
IEEE Micro
A performance evaluation of the Intel iAPX 432
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
A Characterization of Processor Performance in the vax-11/780
ISCA '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Patchable control store for reduced microcode risk in a VLSI VAX microcomputer
MICRO 17 Proceedings of the 17th annual workshop on Microprogramming
Evaluating x86 condition codes impact on superscalar execution
ISTASC'06 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Systems Theory & Scientific Computation
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This paper reports measurements of instruction set use on the VAX-11/780 computer. A hardware monitor was used to measure the frequency and time taken by each VAX instruction. Data from benchmark programs, a compiler, a linker, and a synthetic timesharing workload are reported. Results show that although some programs rely on a small set of instructions, different applications use the instruction set in different ways.