Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bywater!arnor!panini.watson.ibm.com!murthy From: murthy@panini.watson.ibm.com (Sesh Murthy) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Floating point register renaming Message-ID: <1990Mar15.162805.7447@arnor.uucp> Date: 15 Mar 90 16:28:05 GMT Sender: murthy@arnor.uucp (Sesh Murthy) Reply-To: murthy@ibm.com (Sesh Murthy) Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research, NY Lines: 8 It occurs to me that all compilers for the Risc System 6000 machines are not going to be produced by IBM. Also you sometimes get object code that has not been optimized. Wouldn't floating point register help here. Of course this is only my UNINFORMED opinion. Sesh Murthy