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Re:How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? by gpderetta on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:26AM (#25264026)
exactly this. Thanks for the practical example.

The reason it is less relevant for integer computations is that integer ops have normally lower latency and tend to have shorter loop carried dependency chains.

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