Instruction Set Design for Support of High-Level Languages

Conventional instruction sets or directly interpretable languages (DILs) have not been designed with high-level languages (HLLs) in mind. The resulting semantic gap is known to cause significant inefficiencies in space and time resources in execution. Direct interpretation of HLLs is not the solution, because it is too complex and inefficient. The alternative is to precede the interpretation phase by a compilation phase in which the HLL is translated to a "suitable" DIL which is then directly interpreted. The current trend is toward the use of HLLs for all programming tasks. It is no longer appopriate to design a machine which presupposes a user interface to the DIL, but only to the HLL. The modern design problem is to derive a space-time efficient DIL for a HLL processing system.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Bose, Pradip

• Engineering, Electronics and Electrical

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8409867

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69271