[comp.arch] "Dribble Back"

pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) (10/11/88)

In article <9864@cup.portal.com> bcase@cup.portal.com writes:
>[ "lazy" used to be called "dribble back" ]

I believe that the term was coined by Richard L. Sites
in his seminal paper from the Caltech VLSI conference
of 1979, _How to use 1000 Registers_.  Good paper.
Read it.

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