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Special or general-purpose hardware for Prolog: A comparison

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OSTI ID:5233373
This study compares the performance of executing Prolog code on the Berkeley PLM processor (a special-purpose CISC architecture) and the Berkeley SPUR processor (a general-purpose RISC architecture with tagged data). Fourteen standard benchmark programs were run on both the PLM and SPUR simulators. The two implementations were compared with regard to static and dynamic program size, execution speed, and cache performance. The simulated memory system included a direct-mapped mixed instruction and data cache.
OSTI ID:
5233373
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English