PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction...
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IBM POWER architecture (category Articles with short description)
computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by IBM. The name is an acronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC. The ISA is...
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IBM Power microprocessors (category All articles with dead external links)
"POWER" was originally presented as an acronym for "Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC". The Power line of microprocessors has been used in...
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Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) is a technology designed to improve security for reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors. CHERI...
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Acronym (category Articles with short description)
"HyperText Transfer Protocol" POWER stands for "Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC", in which "RISC" stands for "reduced instruction set computer"...
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RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five": 1 ) is a free and open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) based on reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles...
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Reduced instruction set computer (redirect from RISC processor)
In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) (pronounced "risk") is a computer architecture designed to simplify the...
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equivalent code optimized for some aspect. Optimization is limited by a number of factors. Theoretical analysis indicates that some optimization problems are...
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ARM architecture family (redirect from Advanced RISC Machine)
as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for...
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Complex instruction set computer (category Articles with short description)
x86 to match RISC's performance. The terms CISC and RISC have become less meaningful with the continued evolution of both CISC and RISC designs and implementations...
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Pentium (original) (category Articles with short description)
cope with the complicated x86 encodings in a pipelined fashion. Just like the i486, the Pentium used both an optimized microcode system and RISC-like...
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AES instruction set (category Articles with short description)
instructions were available on RISC-V, a number of RISC-V chips included integrated AES co-processors. Examples include: Dual-core RISC-V 64 bits Sipeed-M1 support...
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X86 (redirect from Advanced Performance Extensions)
in high-performance computing clusters and powerful desktop workstations. The aged 32-bit x86 was competing with much more advanced 64-bit RISC architectures...
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loop nest optimization (LNO) is an optimization technique that applies a set of loop transformations for the purpose of locality optimization or parallelization...
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Arteris (category Articles with short description)
High-Performance Computing and Datacenter RISC-V Chiplets - Arteris". Retrieved 2023-11-15. "Andes Technology and Arteris Partner To Accelerate RISC-V SoC...
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P6 (microarchitecture) (redirect from Intel Enhanced Pentium M (microarchitecture))
processors dynamically translate IA-32 instructions into sequences of buffered RISC-like micro-operations, then analyze and reorder the micro-operations to detect...
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Instruction set simulator (category Articles with short description)
measure of relative performance between different versions of algorithm and also be used to detect "hot spots" where optimization can then be targeted...
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System on a chip (category Articles with short description)
performance of the system to the same extent. Common optimization targets for SoC designs follow, with explanations of each. In general, optimizing any...
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Centaur Technology (category Articles with short description)
the original RISC advocates, who claim that a smaller set of instructions, better optimized, can deliver faster overall CPU performance. The C3 design...
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Godot (game engine) (category Articles with short description)
version after several beta builds and bug fixes. It enhanced graphics quality, rendering optimization techniques, and added accessibility features. This...
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Central processing unit (redirect from Performance Counter Monitor)
simultaneously. This section describes what is generally referred to as the "classic RISC pipeline", which is quite common among the simple CPUs used in many electronic...
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SPARC (category Articles with short description)
that RISC had a much better price/performance ratio than traditional CISC architecture. Workstation vendor Sun Microsystems decided to move to RISC as fast...
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Python (programming language) (redirect from Python Enhancement Proposal)
written in C. PyPy offers support for the RISC-V instruction-set architecture. Codon is an implentation with an ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler, which compiles...
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HP-UX (category Articles with short description)
proprietary FOCUS architecture, and later HP 9000 Series models based on HP's PA-RISC instruction set architecture. HP-UX was the first Unix to offer access-control...
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VIA C3 (category Articles with short description)
from the original RISC advocates, who stated a smaller set of instructions, better optimized, would deliver faster overall CPU performance. As it makes heavy...
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History of general-purpose CPUs (category Articles with short description)
coupled with an accurate branch predictor, gives a large performance gain. These advances, which were originally developed from research for RISC-style...
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List of Intel CPU microarchitectures (category Articles with short description)
optimization model and Template:Intel processor roadmap. 8086 first x86 processor; initially a temporary substitute for the iAPX 432 to compete with Motorola...
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C++ (redirect from C with classes)
functionalities, greater speed, and enhanced control compared to high-level programming languages when optimizing for performance is essential. C++ provides support...
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Raspberry Pi (category All articles with dead external links)
February 2013. The Raspberry Pi did not ship with a pre-installed operating system. While ports of RISC OS 5 and Fedora Linux were available, a port of...
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Power ISA (category Articles with short description)
Power ISA is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) currently developed by the OpenPOWER Foundation, led by IBM....
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