ASPLOS-II, 1987: Palo Alto, California

Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS II), October 5-8, 1987, Palo Alto, California, Proceedings. ACM Press, IEEE-CS, ISBN 0-89791-238-1, SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 15(5), SIGOPS Operating System Review 21(4), SIGPLAN Notices 22(10)

Keynote Address

Niklaus Wirth: Hardware Architectures for Programming Languages and Programming Languages for Hardware Architectures. 2-8 BibTeX

Operating Systems

Bob Beck, Bob Kasten, Shreekant S. Thakkar: VLSI Assist For a Multiprocessor. 10-20 BibTeX
Roberto Bisiani, Alessandro Forin: Architectural Support for Multilanguage Parallel Programming on Heterogeneous Systems. 21-30 BibTeX
Richard F. Rashid, Avadis Tevanian, Michael Young, David B. Golub, Robert V. Baron, David L. Black, William J. Bolosky, Jonathan Chew: Machine-Independent Virtual Memory Management for Paged Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Architectures. 31-39 BibTeX

Languages and Instruction

John R. Hayes, Martin E. Fraeman, Robert L. Williams, Thomas Zaremba: An Architecture for the Direct Execution of the Forth Programming Language. 42-49 BibTeX
Peter Steenkiste, John L. Hennessy: Tags and Type Checking in Lisp: Hardware and Software Approaches. 50-59 BibTeX
Jack W. Davidson, Richard A. Vaughan: The Effect of Instruction Set Complexity on Program Size and Memory Performance. 60-64 BibTeX
Russell R. Atkinson, Edward M. McCreight: The Dragon Processor. 65-69 BibTeX

Miscellaneous Architectural Support

James R. Goodman: Coherency for Multiprocessor Virtual Address Caches. 72-81 BibTeX
Thomas A. Cargill, Bart N. Locanthi: Cheap Hardware Support for Software Debugging and Profiling. 82-83 BibTeX
Christos J. Georgiou, S. L. Palmer, P. L. Rosenfeld: An Experimental Coprocessor for Implementing Persistant Objects on an IBM 4381. 84-87 BibTeX

Compilers I

Daniel J. Magenheimer, Liz Peters, Karl Pettis, Dan Zuras: Integer Multiplication and Division on the HP Precision Architecture. 90-99 BibTeX
David W. Wall, Michael L. Powell: The Mahler Experience: Using and Intermediate Language as the Machine Description. 100-104 BibTeX
Shlomo Weiss, James E. Smith: A Study of Scalar Compilation Techniques for Pipelined Supercomputers. 105-109 BibTeX

Compilers II

William R. Bush, A. Dain Samples, David Ungar, Paul N. Hilfinger: Compiling Smalltalk-80 to a RISC. 112-116 BibTeX
Fred C. Chow, Steven Correll, Mark I. Himelstein, Earl Killian, Larry Weber: How Many Addressing Modes are Enough? 117-121 BibTeX
Henry Massalin: Superoptimizer - A Look at the Smallest Program. 122-126 BibTeX

Functional and Logic Languages

Kazuo Taki, Katsuto Nakajima, Hiroshi Nakashima, Morihiro Ikeda: Performance and Architectural Evaluation of the PSI Machine. 128-135 BibTeX
Gaetano Borriello, Andrew R. Cherenson, Peter B. Danzig, Michael N. Nelson: RISCs versus CISCs for Prolog: A Case Study. 136-145 BibTeX
Richard B. Kieburtz: A RISC Architecture for Symbolic Computation. 146-155 BibTeX

New Machines I

David R. Ditzel, Hubert R. McLellan: Design Tradeoffs to Support the C Programming Language in the CRISP Microprocessor. 158-163 BibTeX
Charles P. Thacker, Lawrence C. Stewart: Firefly: A Multiprocessor Workstation. 164-172 BibTeX
Douglas W. Clark: Pipelining and Performance in the VAX 8800 Processor. 173-177 BibTeX

New Machines II

Robert P. Colwell, Robert P. Nix, John J. O'Donnell, David B. Papworth, Paul K. Rodman: A VLIW Architecture for a Trace Scheduling Compiler. 180-192 BibTeX
Adam Levinthal, Pat Hanrahan, Mike Paquette, Jim Lawson: Parallel Computers for Graphics Applications. 193-198 BibTeX
James E. Smith, G. E. Dermer, B. D. Vanderwarn, S. D. Klinger, C. M. Rozewski, D. L. Fowler, K. R. Scidmore, James Laudon: The ZS-1 Central Processor. 199-204 BibTeX