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Larry Baker
2018-01-26 21:25:25 UTC
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Was SOAP Knuth's assembler that optimized placement of the machine code on the drum memory to minimize access latency for the next instruction?

Larry Baker
US Geological Survey
650-329-5608
The only other optimizing assembler I can think of is SOAP, way back in the 1950s.
Howard Bussey
2018-01-26 21:55:19 UTC
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SOAP was the assembler for the IBM 650.

—Howard

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Post by Larry Baker
Was SOAP Knuth's assembler that optimized placement of the machine code on the drum memory to minimize access latency for the next instruction?
Larry Baker
US Geological Survey
650-329-5608
The only other optimizing assembler I can think of is SOAP, way back in the 1950s.
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