Appeal No. 2001,0712
Application 08/148,887
They point out that in Chi the total of the read/write costs
of each variable is used as a basis to assign variables to
register locations, and only considering read/write costs may
have a detrimental effect on overall execution speed if the
operations to be performed are not considered. Thus, there is
no teaching that the actual instruction sequences associated
with the variables should be considered. Appellants assert
that the claimed system overcomes this problem.
As to the instruction sequence extraction means of
claim 11 and the instruction set generating means of claim 21,
Appellants aver that they are not disclosed by the cited
references, and cannot, as the Examiner contends, be inferred
as necessary in order to determine the instruction sequence
for computing cost. Appellants note that neither reference
teaches the need or desire to evaluate the actual instruction
sequences associated with the variables to be allocated.
Hitchcock is noted to lack any reference to extracting the
actual instruction sequences associated with a particular
variable allocation in order to determine the cost of the
overall computer program. Chi is noted not to extract actual
instructions associated with a variable allocation, and not to
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