A 553K-transistor LISP processor chip

Bosshart, P.; Hewes, C.R.; Chau, K.K.; Hoac, C.; Houston, T.W.; Kalyan, V.; Lusky, S.; Mahant-Shetti, S.S.; Matzke, D.; Ruparel, Kosha; Shaw, C.-H.; Sridhar, T.; Stark, D.

doi:10.1109/isscc.1987.1157084

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“…At the same time, the amount of data generated in such a process is growing in an unpredicted speed. IBM reported [41] that more than 90% of the data in this world has been generated within the past two years.…”

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Sustainable and Resilient Network Infrastructure Design for Cloud Data Centers

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Engineering and Management of Data Centers

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Section: Performance Trendmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable and Resilient Network Infrastructure Design for Cloud Data Centers

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Gutiérrez

et al. 2017

Engineering and Management of Data Centers

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“…The VLSI chip used in the TI Explorer II [2], for example, has a special onchip memory for dispatch tables that can be used by the micro-code.…”

Section: Generic Operationsmentioning

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Tags and type checking in LISP: hardware and software approaches

Steenkiste

Hennessy

1987

SIGPLAN Not.

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One of the major factors that distinguishes LISP from many other languages (Pascal, C, Fortran, etc.) is the need for run-time type checking. Run-time type checking is implemented by adding to each data object a tag that encodes type information. Tags must be compared for type compatibility, removed when using the data, and inserted when new data items are created. This tag manipulation, together with other work related to dynamic type checking and generic operations, constitutes a significant component of the execution time of LISP programs. This has led both to the development of LISP machines that support tag checking in hardware and to the avoidance of type checking by users running on stock hardware. To understand the role and necessity of special-purpose hardware for tag handling, we first measure the cost of type checking operations for a group of LISP programs. We then examine hardware and software implementations of tag operations and estimate the cost of tag handling with the different tag implementation schemes. The data shows that minimal levels of support provide most of the benefits, and that tag operations can be relatively inexpensive, even when no special hardware support is present.

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Lisp on a reduced-instruction-set processor: characterization and optimization

Steenkiste

Hennessy

1988

Computer

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A 553K-transistor LISP processor chip

Cited by 11 publications

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Sustainable and Resilient Network Infrastructure Design for Cloud Data Centers

Sustainable and Resilient Network Infrastructure Design for Cloud Data Centers

Tags and type checking in LISP: hardware and software approaches

Lisp on a reduced-instruction-set processor: characterization and optimization

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