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  3. From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc,comp.compilers
  5. Subject: Re: Are 64 Int or FP registers useful?
  6. Keywords: registers, optimize, comment
  7. Message-ID: <92-09-073@comp.compilers>
  8. Date: 14 Sep 92 12:58:06 GMT
  9. References: <1992Sep7.091904.2626@newsroom.bsc.no> <1992Sep9.074123.3222@PA.dec.com>
  10. Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
  11. Reply-To: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
  12. Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
  13. Lines: 17
  14. Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
  15.  
  16. neideck@nestvx.enet.dec.com (Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz) writes:
  17. >Most compilers couldn't deal with that many registers. A good paper about
  18. >a compiler system that could is:
  19.  
  20.         [References to WRL technical reports deleted.]
  21.  
  22. With all these claims about how tremendous a job compilers are doing, this
  23. is certainly a counterexample.  
  24.  
  25. -- 
  26. Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
  27. Phone: (317)494-6054, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)  
  28. {purdue,pur-ee}!pop.stat!hrubin(UUCP)
  29. [So how good are human programmers at using zillions of registers? -John]
  30. -- 
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