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Alternative R10000 L2 way predictor 0 233 (3/23/2011 7:12:54 PM) comp.arch Playing the 20-40 hindsight game, would it have been useful to include a single bit of address information mixed with the MRU rather than using just MRU to predict the way? The single bit of address informa... Paul

ALU control register 3 264 (2/21/2011 8:39:51 PM) comp.arch Is ALU control implementation sufficiently persistent across microarchitectures to make Architecting an ALU control register operand useful. This was thought of in the context of SIMD. With a control reg... Paul

Limited polymorphism in CIMT 0 171 (10/21/2010 4:11:09 PM) comp.arch It seems that there might be some cases in which incoherence in the instruction stream is artificial or incomplete. I would guess that existing compilers for GPUs can eliminate the obvious simple artificia... Paul

Can 32-bit Architectures replace 8-bit Architectures? 10 145 (9/13/2010 10:00:49 PM) comp.arch.embedded While from a theoretical perspective, I tend to favor the adoption of 32-bit Architectures for their greater flexibility, I also dislike the wasting of resources that universal adoption would imply. Hoping... Paul

Complex sub-block (bank) indexing 9 170 (9/13/2010 9:47:56 PM) comp.arch Given the use of banking to support multiple concurrent accesses, would it be possible to decrease conflicts by not having every address and way use simple bit-field-selection-based indexing? (Simple bank i... Paul

Early use of a new process 3 197 (9/13/2010 9:47:01 PM) comp.arch Rather than 'only' making SRAM as part of bringing up a new process, would it make sense to produce more marketable chips that are highly redundant (to make high defect rate less problematic), relatively sim... Paul

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Can someone explain step by step how one avoid many conditional in forth as described in Moore Fourth essay? 15 43 (1/10/2012 10:25:50 AM) comp.lang.forth : 5x x x x x x ; : 20x 5x 5x 5x 5x ; http://www.ultratechnology.com/moore4th.htm I don't understand how conditional can be minimized...they seem to be with loops almost the basic block of a program.. ... gavcomedy (1610)