Special Feature: Computer Design to Minimize Memory Requirements
- 1 August 1976
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Computer
- Vol. 9 (8) , 65-70
- https://doi.org/10.1109/c-m.1976.218677
Abstract
Matching the instructions and their representations to the distributions of usage can save 75% of the space taken by contemporary machine representations. The gain in space may be accompanied by a reduction in execution time due to more efficient use of data paths. Variable-length codes can also eliminate all forms of overflow from machine-language, and greatly reduce the probability of overflow in data.Keywords
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