Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:18:39 12/06/99
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On December 06, 1999 at 08:39:37, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: [snip] >More registers kick butt bigtime (unlikely that >intel changes this till the merced comes out as this would require new >compiler and incompatibility with current software), but i have no >idea how much it would speedup my program. Except when you change context from thread to thread. That why the 256 register SPARC is handicapped for multiple CPU's. A context switch is very expensive. Imagine a million registers and going from thread to thread for an easy mind experiment about why lots of registers is not always a good thing. [snip]
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