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From: david@sun.uucp (David DiGiacomo)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: 386 Family Products (really registers)
Message-ID: <3085@sun.uucp>
Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 16:25:24 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 19 16:25:24 1985
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In article <6233@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>It's noteworthy that Bliss-11 ... did not manage to use more than 3 or 4 
>registers effectively on most programs.

I don't think static analysis is appropriate here.  An optimized
rasterop/bitblt routine can make good use of 20-30 registers.  On a
typical workstation, those registers would be worthwhile even if no
other code used them.

(Those with bitblt hardware could try optimizing namei().)

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David DiGiacomo  {decvax, dual, ihnp4, ucbvax}!sun!david
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