At 2:51 AM -0400 5/20/02, Mike Lambert wrote:
>Now, my proposal is simply that instead of hardcoding to 32 elements, we
>allow the function to determine the number of elements in each register
>type. This gives us:

I actually considered that at one point, back at the beginning. I 
went with the fixed-size register file out of sheer comfort reasons. 
(I think--it was a while ago) At this point I'd rather not move over 
to a variable sized register file for other reasons. You'll notice 
that the registers are embedded in the interpreter structure itself. 
This removes a level of indirection (one I resisted doing until 
Daniel showed me the speed win) and speeds things up.
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                                         Dan

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