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2009/5/6 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:52952 Activity:moderate |
5/5 Any idea why the AMD only added 8 more registers with the AMD64 arch.? Why 16 registers and not, say, 32? \_ To double the accessible register count, you need one more bit in the instruction stream _per_ register field. x86 instruction set is already packed like rat's nest as is. |
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