Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!waikato!aukuni.ac.nz!qzhe1 From: qzhe1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Qun Zheng ) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: more registers for ix86, was: Let's pretend Message-ID: Date: 5 Jan 91 04:42:49 GMT References: <3042@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1990Dec26.020034.4131@lpi.liant.com> <5827@labtam.labtam.oz> <9854@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> Sender: news@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (News Owner) Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand. Lines: 8 Is there a modern processor without registers? If there is, how do they catch up the speed, playing which sort tricks on caches? Chuck ------- Dept CompSci Auckland University NEW ZEALAND