Appeal No. 97-1204
Application No. 08/453,948
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 9 through 16, 24 and 25, all of the claims pending in
the application.
The invention is directed to the processing of
instructions for parallel execution. More particularly,
compounding tags are stored, along with the sequence of
instructions, in a cache.
Representative independent claim 9 is reproduced as
follows:
9. In a digital computer system including means for
executing two or more instructions and a main memory and cache
for storing instructions, a method for processing instructions
for parallel execution, the method comprising the steps of:
storing a plurality of instructions in the main memory;
obtaining two or more instructions from the main memory for
execution;
in response to the two or more instructions, generating
compounding information signifying parallel execution of at
least two instructions; and
storing the at least two instructions and the compounding
information in the cache.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Pomerene et al. [Pomerene] 4,437,149 Mar. 13, 1984
Jardine et al. [Jardine] 5,075,844 Dec. 24,
1991
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