Re: Are 64 Int or FP registers useful?

hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:58:06 GMT

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From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:58:06 GMT
Keywords: registers, optimize, comment
References: <1992Sep7.091904.2626@newsroom.bsc.no> <1992Sep9.074123.3222@PA.dec.com>

neideck@nestvx.enet.dec.com (Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz) writes:
>Most compilers couldn't deal with that many registers. A good paper about
>a compiler system that could is:


[References to WRL technical reports deleted.]


With all these claims about how tremendous a job compilers are doing, this
is certainly a counterexample.


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[So how good are human programmers at using zillions of registers? -John]
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