Analysis of Memory Addressing Architecture
Dan W. Hammerstrom · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1977
This research investigates the process of generating memory addresses within computer programs and evaluates methods for making that process more efficient. The approach taken here is to separate program execution into a computation process and an addressing process. The addressing process generates the memory reference stream for the computation process (and incidentally for itself as well). The memory reference stream of the computation process is then modeled probabilistically and its information content derived. Several techniques are presented for improving addressing efficiency with standard computer architectures.