Apparatus and method for information processing enabling fast access to program

Abstract

A main memory stores cache blocks obtained by dividing a program. At a position in a cache block where a branch to another cache block is provided, an instruction is embedded for activating a branch resolution routine for performing processing, such as loading of a cache block of the branch target. A program is loaded into a local memory in units of cache blocks, and the cache blocks are serially stored in first through nth banks, which are sections provided in the storage area. Management of addresses in the local memory or processing for discarding a copy of a cache block is performed with reference to an address translation table, an inter-bank reference table, and a generation number table.