>>>>> "Gerd" == Gerd Moellmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gerd> Christophe Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> * A smarter register allocator that chooses registers for the
>> innermost, not the outermost, loops;
Gerd> ... and that does better floating-point register allocation on x86
Isn't this because you really can't "allocate" registers because the
FPU is a stack? I also thought this didn't hurt much because the
Pentium does register renaming on the FPU so those fxch instructions
are very fast?
Ray
