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From: hcobb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb)
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Subject: Registers on critical path (was: Re: loop unrolling )
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Date: 23 Jan 91 02:15:11 GMT
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	The other half of the problem is instructions (decode, pipelining,
branch prediction, etc...) where registers have little impact. (Unless
we're back to putting code in the registers... :)

-- 
	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu  SFB Tyrant
"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present" -Hobbes