Re: New assembly language instructions to support OO languages?

In comp.arch Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net> wrote:
> If I had my druthers, I'd add a number of VERY wide registers
> replacing on the chip die the "implicit" registers known as cache
> lines and make the management of these explicit with its own
> instructions rather than implicit and heuristic.


How many of such registers would you want? Making them explicitly
visible registers bulks up your context switch saved-state.


Or is there an opportunity to re-introduce instructions that operate
directly on memory and support large data types / SIMD that happen to
execute extremely efficiently if the operands match cache line
size and alignment?


G.

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