PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE FOR EXACT INDEX IDENTIFICATION

摘要

The invention relates to an object-based processor architecture, which permits an exact index identification such that index and data are completely separated from each other in the memory and in the processor registers. Access to the memory is achieved solely by means of indices which refer to objects. An object comprises separate regions for index and data and an attribute field for description of the length of both regions. Both the indices in the index registers and the indices in the index regions directly comprise the address of the objects to which said indices refer. The inventive processor architecture permits the integration of an automatic memory clean-up which can be partly or totally implemented in hardware. A real-time memory clean-up can be carried out particularly efficiently by means of hardware implementation.