Re: What is a scoreboard?

uiucdcs!uunet!geac!daveb (David Collier-Brown)
24 Dec 87 19:20:16 GMT

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Summary: See also "register history"
Date: 24 Dec 87 19:20:16 GMT
References: <808@ima.ISC.COM>
From: uiucdcs!uunet!geac!daveb (David Collier-Brown)
Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star.

In article <808@ima.ISC.COM> xyzzy!meissner@mcnc.org writes:
|In article <797@ima.ISC.COM>, ...!harvard!talcott!motcoh!mark writes:
|> Can someone explain the technique of using "scoreboards" in
|> compiler development? Any references?
|
| I don't have any hard references, but when I ran into the CDC 6600
|hardware it was described as having a hardware scoreboard.


    It could also be a misnomer for a "register history", which is
useful on machines without any visible parallellization, to keep
track of what register currently holds what variable or value. For
an example, see:
    Jim Welsh and Michael McKag, "Structures Systems Programming",
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. (Prentice-Hall), 1980.


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