On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:21:07PM -0800, SJS wrote: > > So are you saying the way to build a fast CPU is to have as many registers > > as > > possible to avoid the stack as much as possible? > > No, because too many registers really slow the machine down when you > have a context switch or function call. All those registers have to be > saved off somewhere. > > The SPARC idea of a "register window" is really interesting here, at > least for function calls. It's sort of a stack of registers....
Ug...this is sounding like a really hard problem to solve!!? :) "Hmmm, how many registers should we add?" cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
