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- From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgoup)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: RTX and SC32
- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:43:20
- Organization: Sun MegaSystems
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- Message-ID: <KHB.92Nov5194320@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <17131@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov4.191038.12063@news.arc.nasa.gov> <CLIFFC.92Nov5101357@miranda.rice.edu>
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- In-reply-to: cliffc@rice.edu's message of 5 Nov 92 16:13:57 GMT
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- In article <CLIFFC.92Nov5101357@miranda.rice.edu> cliffc@rice.edu (Cliff Click) writes:
-
- And now a soapbox:
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- Compiler technolgy is driven by computer archetectures.
- If a big-name company produced a blazing stack machine and handed a few
- out to CS departments doing compiler research, compiler researchers
- (like myself, hint, hint) would find the moral equivalent of the
- "graph coloring register allocator" for stack machines.
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- The A series machines from UNISYS date back to the early sixties. They
- are stack machines.
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- Do they have to throw more than 30 years of machines out to attract CS
- researchers?
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- It is possible that some optimizer writers have looked at stack
- machines more than once ;>
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