---------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:49:54 -0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is Scheme/Lisp somehow more "fundamental" than other languages? > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 04:48:39PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > >>>> count users. Hence the 6 register intel architecture. >>> Just one of the reasons I loathe the intel architecture. >> >> Um, I thought that x86_64 had finally broken out of this? Am I wrong? > > x86_64 doubled the number of general purpose registers from 8 to 16. There > is still a base pointer and stack pointer, so if you called x86 a > 6-register process, you'd call it 14. The registers are also all 64-bits > wide. > x86 wasn't 6 due to ebp and esp, it was due to esi and edi.
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