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From: dprrhb@inetg1.Arco.Com (Reginald H. Beardsley)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: more register flames
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Date: 20 Dec 90 15:37:53 GMT
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 With respect to all the argument about having large numbers of registers in
hardware, do any of you read anything more substantial than net news?

  From "Computer Architecture, A Quantative Approach" by J.L Hennessy and
D.A. Patterson, p. E-15:
 "an implementation of SPARC can have as few a 40 physical registers and as many as 520, although most have 128 to 136, so far"

  If you want to know something about computer architecture and performance, 
as opposed to having opinions, read the previously cited volume or Tanenbaum's
"Structured Computer Organization", preferably both.

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