High level language programs run ten times faster in microstore

  • Authors:

  • Henry G. Baker, Jr.;Clinton Parker

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • MICRO 13 Proceedings of the 13th annual workshop on Microprogramming
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

A true microcode compiler for a minicomputer is described which translates an algebraic language directly into executable microcode. The compiler performs extensive optimization and produces code which is a good compromise between speed and size. This compiler was produced in order to make user microprogramming more accessible to the applications programmer. Several representative programs were compiled, and their run time improved by a factor of ten, on the average.