Butler
Lampson
Citation: Internal memo, Digital Systems Research Center, December
1984.
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Email: blampson@microsoft.com. This paper is at http://www.research.microsoft.com.
Abstract:
One way to make a fast VAX is to build a fast machine with a simple instruction set, and translate VAX instructions into sequences of simple instructions (as opposed to interpreting VAX instructions with sequences of simple instructions, the way current machines do). We call the fast machine a VR (VAX RISC), and the resulting VAX a VOR (VAX on RISC). In order to make the translation as transparent as possible, we keep a cache of translated instructions, and do the translation only on cache misses.