Enhancing instruction scheduling with a block-structured ISA

Stephen Melvin1, Yale N. Patt2
1P.O. Box 2400, 94702-0400, Berkeley, California
2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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