Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!amdcad!bcase From: bcase@amdcad.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: register window machine questions Message-ID: <14986@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 12:51:49 EST Article-I.D.: amdcad.14986 Posted: Thu Feb 26 12:51:49 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Feb-87 05:05:47 EST References: <4376@columbia.UUCP> <7284@boring.mcvax.cwi.nl> Reply-To: bcase@amdcad.UUCP (Brian Case) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 12 In article <7284@boring.mcvax.cwi.nl> jack@boring.UUCP (Jack Jansen) writes: > >Something that I would be very interested in is wether there >is any research done into machines with an unlimited register >file. >What I have in mind is a stackish machine, with an intelligent >stack cache that will delay writes around the stack pointer >(since there's a very good chance that they will never have >to be written at all). Close, but not quite, the C Machine Stack Cache. See SIGARCH/SIGPLAN notices, vol. 17, no. 4, April 1982.