This is an important foundation: after all, the basic idea of an electrical relay was known in the 1820s, and the concept of a mechanical computer that operated off a stored set of instructions-a program-was understood a few years later.
In this case, however, the nodes represent individual instructions in a program, and the edges represent the amount of data that each instruction passes to the next.
Analysis of SPEC2000 programs reveals that only a small portion of the instructions in a program (16% in integer and 38% in floating-point) require both the source operands.
The firm hires the most driven programmers, pays them a lot in share options, works them hard and then sells the product in a form that customers can use, but not change (because it comes without the "source code", the set of computer instructions underlying a program).
If asked about phrases like 'in the DNA' or 'in the genes', most people would probably refer to the idea that the genes contain instructions or a program.
The program used eight words of working storage in addition to its 17 words of instructions, giving a program size of 25 words.
Computer-assisted instruction (CAI), a program of instructional material presented by means of a computer or computer systems.
The debutantes have completed an 18-month program of social and community service and have been provided with cultural education, personal development training and etiquette instruction in a program that has a rich, 62-year-old tradition with the local women's club.
Reddie combined intensive studies and close individual instruction with a program of physical exercise, manual labour, recreation, and arts.
This method consists accumulating the energy dissipated by every instruction of a program.
