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- From: cliffc@rice.edu (Cliff Click)
- Subject: Re: RTX and SC32
- In-Reply-To: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM's message of 5 Nov 92 19:43:20
- Message-ID: <CLIFFC.92Nov6094232@dawn.rice.edu>
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Organization: Center for Research on Parallel Computations
- References: <17131@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov4.191038.12063@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:42:32 GMT
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- khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgoup) writes:
- > cliffc@rice.edu (Cliff Click) writes:
- > > And now a soapbox:
- > > 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.
-
- > The A series machines from UNISYS date back to the early sixties. They
- > are stack machines. Do they have to throw more than 30 years of machines
- > out to attract CS researchers?
-
- How come I've never programed on one, despite 8 years of college-level
- schooling? Obviously I picked the wrong schools ;-).
-
- > It is possible that some optimizer writers have looked at stack
- > machines more than once ;>
-
- Guilty: I looked once and it looked solvable (stack allocation for DAGs
- with fast "pick n" and "put n" ops), but not necessarily PhD thesis material.
-
- Cliff
-
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- Through a gentle rain / the moon throws silver shadows /
- and tears fall like pearls. Cliff Click (cliffc@cs.rice.edu)
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