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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: registerless architecture
Message-ID: <47873@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 91 22:20:27 GMT
References: <1990Nov14.064225.14406@caliban.uucp> <1990Nov21.004355.212@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <17212@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <17212@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
 --arguments for a 'register cache'
e.g. it one could treat each virtual
>register as on a normal fixed register machine, but it would probably make as
>much sense to make it act like a register window machine.

>make all working register references relative to a
>real register, which points to the base of register space.  The time to add
>in the offset from the base pointer can be hidden in the CPU pipeline if 
>there's a dedicated adder for this purpose.

You've just described the ATT CRISP pretty muc. Look it up...

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