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Re:Why Registers Are Fast and RAM Is Slow by terrymah on Friday October 11, 2013 @02:05PM (#6534784)
I've heard that modern Intel processors have 100 < x < 200 physical registers. I'm not sure they actually document the exact number.
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Re:Why Registers Are Fast and RAM Is Slow by hornetblack on Saturday October 12, 2013 @08:17AM (#6538456)
Itanium has at least 256. (128 Integer + 128 Float + 128 predicate (1 bit), which are essentially flip-flops.)
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