SPARC Architecture Design Decisions | Robert Garner

Описание: Robert Garner details the mechanics and motivation behind various features of the SPARC instruction set architecture, including register windows, delay slots, and alternate address spaces. He also discusses why SPARC did not define a memory management unit (MMU), and describes the functionality of Andy Bechtolsheim's zero-cost MMU implementation.

Clip is from Episode 3 of the Microarch Club Podcast: https://microarch.club/episodes/11/

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