[TUHS] SPARC is CRAPS spelled backwards.

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Wed Sep 26 04:41:55 AEST 2018


    > From: Tony Finch

    > This paper has a nice survey of instruction set densities

And the winner is.... the PDP-11!

I'm not too surprised by this; back in the days of core memory (and limited,
at that - the first PDP-11's came standard with ... 8KB of memory :-), having
the denset possible code had real savings.

    Noel




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