A NOVEL ARCHITECTURE FOR HANDLING PERSISTENT OBJECTS

Authors
LAVINGTON SH
Citation
Sh. Lavington, A NOVEL ARCHITECTURE FOR HANDLING PERSISTENT OBJECTS, Microprocessors and microsystems, 17(3), 1993, pp. 131-138
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Sciences","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Computer Applications & Cybernetics
Journal title
Microprocessors and microsystems → ACNP
ISSN journal
01419331
Volume
17
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
131 - 138
Database
ISI
SICI code
0141-9331(1993)17:3<131:ANAFHP>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
The storage and processing of persistent objects presents opportunitie s for add-on hardware support. Particularly, there are aspects of memo ry management and whole-structure processing which are seen to benefit from a novel kind of SIMD-parallel architecture. This paper discusses the top-down requirements for handling persistent objects and then de scribes an active memory unit called the IFS/2 which meets these requi rements. Performance figures for prototype hardware are given, and its application to an object-oriented data model is briefly described.