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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by DelwinAmber on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @02:34PM (#7879614)
CPU's may end up looking more like GPU's with thousands of registers.
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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by oh_teh_meows on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @03:20PM (#7879903)
Compiler optimizations that are currently impeded because of register pressure can be enabled to its fullest extent, thereby increasing program speed even more. Compiler writers also get more breathing room to design better optimizations.
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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by mzs on Thursday June 12, 2014 @11:37AM (#7884000)
or with very few registers per thread on die with the rest in storage ala TMS9900

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9900

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