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Some operations may change the state of the ADT ; therefore, the order in which operations are evaluated is important, and the same operation on the same entities may have different effects if executed at different times — just like the instructions of a computer, or the commands and procedures of an imperative language.
Its design provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions, and therefore it found lasting use in applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language, most notably system software like the Unix computer operating system.
For instance, the PDP-8, having only 8 fixed-length instructions and no microcode at all, is a CISC because of how the instructions work, PowerPC, which has over 230 instructions ( more than some VAXes ) and complex internals like register renaming and a reorder buffer is a RISC, while Minimal CISC has 8 instructions, but is clearly a CISC because it combines memory access and computation in the same instructions.
: The SFX Assistants carry out the instructions of the Special Effects Supervisor, building set pieces like breakaway furniture and cities in miniature, lighting pyrotechnics, and setting up rigging equipment for stunts.
Such books typically include instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms and divination and also how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, and demons.
Most of the new instructions are modifications of existing instructions to handle the existence of the additional registers, such as load, store, add, and the like.
Like larger processors, it had automatic CALL and RET instructions for multi-level procedure calls and returns ( which could even be conditionally executed, like jumps ) and instructions to save and restore any 16-bit register-pair on the machine stack.
One major barrier to pipelining was that some instructions, like division, take longer to complete and the CPU therefore has to wait before passing the next instruction into the pipeline.
One defect of an instruction set with many hidden side effects is that, if many instructions have side effects on a single piece of state, like condition codes, then the logic required to update that state sequentially may become a performance bottleneck.
The lawyer discovered that a former owner had issued instructions that Rit, like her husband, would be manumitted at the age of 45.
Notably, gametes carry very long molecules called DNA that the biological processes of reproduction can " read " like a book of instructions.
He refused to give instructions to the RPR voters but said that he supported the incumbent president " in a private capacity ", which was almost like a de facto support of the Socialist Party's ( PS ) candidate, François Mitterrand, who was elected by a broad majority.
This form of optimization examines a few adjacent instructions ( like " looking through a peephole " at the code ) to see whether they can be replaced by a single instruction or a shorter sequence of instructions.
In the 1970s, however, places like IBM did research and found that many instructions in the set could be eliminated.
This was partly inspired by the difficulty Fisher observed at Yale of compiling for architectures like Floating Point Systems ' FPS164, which had a complex instruction set architecture ( CISC ) that separated instruction initiation from the instructions that saved the result, requiring very complicated scheduling algorithms.
** Specific instructions like rotations or three-operand addition aren't in some SIMD instruction sets.
Other systems, like MMX and 3DNow !, offered support for data types that were not interesting to a wide audience and had expensive context switching instructions to switch between using the FPU and MMX registers.
Intel and AMD now both provide optimized math libraries that use SIMD instructions, and open source alternatives like libSIMD, SIMDx86 and SLEEF have started to appear.

instructions and Manchester
* On August 1, 2007, British Midland Flight BD752 flying from Las Vegas to Manchester, England was diverted to Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport after a 19-year old male passenger failed to comply with crew instructions.
Some early programmers combined instructions and data in words as a way to save memory, when it was expensive: The Manchester Mark 1 had space in its 40-bit words to store little bits of data – its processor ignored a small section in the middle of a word – and that was often exploited as extra data storage.
The Manchester Mark 1 effectively served as a prototype for the Ferranti Mark 1 ; the main improvements over it were in the size of the primary and secondary storage, a faster multiplier, and additional instructions.
Several new instructions were added to the original Manchester design, including a random number instruction and several new instructions using the B-lines.

instructions and machine
But humans can do something equally useful, in the case of certain enumerably infinite sets: They can give explicit instructions for determining the nth member of the set, for arbitrary finite n. Such instructions are to be given quite explicitly, in a form in which they could be followed by a computing machine, or by a human who is capable of carrying out only very elementary operations on symbols.
: Precise instructions ( in language understood by " the computer ") for a fast, efficient, " good " process that specifies the " moves " of " the computer " ( machine or human, equipped with the necessary internally contained information and capabilities ) to find, decode, and then process arbitrary input integers / symbols m and n, symbols + and =
Computers ( and computors ), models of computation: A computer ( or human " computor ") is a restricted type of machine, a " discrete deterministic mechanical device " that blindly follows its instructions.
Minsky's machine proceeds sequentially through its five ( or six depending on how one counts ) instructions unless either a conditional IF – THEN GOTO or an unconditional GOTO changes program flow out of sequence.
But Minsky shows ( as do Melzak and Lambek ) that his machine is Turing complete with only four general types of instructions: conditional GOTO, unconditional GOTO, assignment / replacement / substitution, and HALT.
A computer is a machine that manipulates data according to a set of instructions called a computer program.
Because the instructions can be carried out in different types of computers, a single set of source instructions converts to machine instructions according to the central processing unit type.
At the lowest level, executable code consists of machine language instructions specific to an individual processor.
A machine language consists of groups of binary values signifying processor instructions that change the state of the computer from its preceding state.
This involves passing instructions from the application software, through the system software, to the hardware which ultimately receives the instruction as machine code.
It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support.
In the 1970s, analysis of high level languages indicated some complex machine language implementations and it was determined that new instructions could improve performance.
Due to inherently compact and semantically rich instructions, the average amount of work performed per machine code unit ( i. e. per byte or bit ) is higher for a CISC than a RISC processor, which may give it a significant advantage in a modern cache based implementation.
For example, the same high-level task may require many more instructions on a RISC machine, but might execute faster than a single CISC instruction.
For example, one of IBM's FORTRAN compilers ( H Extended IUP ) had a level of optimization which reordered the machine code instructions to keep multiple internal arithmetic units busy simultaneously.
In two 1936 patent applications, Konrad Zuse also anticipated that machine instructions could be stored in the same storage used for data — the key insight of what became known as the von Neumann architecture, first implemented in the British SSEM of 1948.
A Java virtual machine is a program which executes certain other programs, namely those containing Java bytecode instructions.
Microcode is a layer of hardware-level instructions or data structures involved in the implementation of higher level machine code instructions in many computers and other processors ; it resides in special high-speed memory and translates machine instructions into sequences of detailed circuit-level operations.

instructions and used
Some school systems provide written instructions to principals and teachers designating when certain information is to be recorded on cumulative record forms and explaining how the information is to be summarized and used.
The characteristic which distinguishes one register as being the accumulator of a computer architecture is that the accumulator ( if the architecture were to have one ) would be used as an implicit operand for arithmetic instructions.
The 8051 microcontroller has two, a primary accumulator and a secondary accumulator, where the second is used by instructions only when multiplying ( MUL AB ) or dividing ( DIV AB ); the former splits the 16-bit result between the two 8-bit accumulators, whereas the latter stores the quotient on the primary accumulator A and the remainder in the secondary accumulator B.
However, in more abstract and complicated CPUs and ISAs, a microprogram is often used to assist in translating instructions into various configuration signals for the CPU.
Hardwired control units are implemented through use of sequential logic units, featuring a finite number of gates that can generate specific results based on the instructions that were used to invoke those responses.
In computing, memory refers to the physical devices used to store programs ( sequences of instructions ) or data ( e. g. program state information ) on a temporary or permanent basis for use in a computer or other digital electronic device.
Some instructions were added that were never intended to be used in assembly language but fit well with compiled high level languages.
The LINC-8 used one PDP-8 CPU and a separate LINC CPU, and included instructions to switch from one to the other.
Deoxyribonucleic acid (; DNA ) is a nucleic acid containing the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms ( with the exception of RNA viruses ).
Filters can be represented by block diagrams, which can then be used to derive a sample processing algorithm to implement the filter with hardware instructions.
In this case the definition above has no explicit instructions, so in both languages access to the slots and methods is considered, meaning they can be used only by subclasses.
A lock flag and locked physical address register are used by the load-locked and store-conditional instructions for multiprocessor support.
God gave Moses instructions for the construction of the tabernacle so that God could dwell permanently among his chosen people, as well as instructions for the priestly vestments, the altar and its appurtenances, the procedure to be used to ordain the priests, and the daily sacrifices to be offered.
These codes are used to convey instructions to merchant terminals on how a card should be processed.
Some instructions also enabled HL to be used as a ( limited ) 16-bit accumulator, and a pseudoregister, M, could be used almost anywhere that any other register could be used and referred to the memory address pointed to by HL.
This removes the need for dedicated I / O instructions, although a drawback in such designs may be that special hardware must be used to insert wait states as peripherals are often slower than memory.
* An 8 KB on-chip ( level 1 ) SRAM cache stores the most recently used instructions and data ( 16 KB and / or write-back on some later models ).
Despite this, the tradition of most Ashkenazi Orthodox synagogues is to use Hebrew ( usually Ashkenazi Hebrew ) for all except a small number of prayers, including the Kaddish, which had always been in Aramaic, and sermons and instructions, for which the local language is used.
In one study, citizens willing to impose the death penalty were presented in 2 experiments with 4 sets of instructions ( i. e., baseline instructions, instructions used at trial, instructions revised according to Eighth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution holdings, and model instructions written in nontechnical language ).

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