Language Related Issues

Language Related Issues

• Need to prefetch irregular data
• Move regular and irregular data between levels of memory
• The Compiler User Interface needs hints and directives
• These need a “Hierarchy Little Language” to express memory heirarchy at all levels
  • This will all one to get portability by expressing each architecture with a parameterization of its memory structure with such things as cache size etc.
  • Compare to register instruction in C; SCM and LCM in 7600; distribute in HPF

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