13 Jun
2024
13 Jun
'24
12:55 p.m.
On 6/13/24 09:33, Adrian Godwin via cctalk wrote:
I may be wrong, but wasn't that a feature of early
RISC, possibly the Sparc
? You were compiling to microcode rather than CISC assembler, so you got to
think about pipelining in the instruction stream. Just about feasible in
assembler but perfectly sensible if the compiler was doing the work.
That sounds a lot like early MIPS processors, where you (or the
compiler) had to schedule load and store delay slots as necessary. It
made sense, given that the whole premise was to make the silicon simple
by having the compiler do all of the bookkeeping.
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