Re:How to use 1000 registers (1979) [pdf]
by Animats on Saturday September 29, 2018 @01:54AM
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CPUs today have register renaming, but not at the level the programmer sees the machine. At the level where the machine is superscalar, x86 CPUs have far more registers than the few the user sees.
Having many registers at the programmer level turned out to not be all that useful. SPARC machines did that, but it wasn't a huge win.
Having many registers at the programmer level turned out to not be all that useful. SPARC machines did that, but it wasn't a huge win.