Re: To RISC or not to RISC

On 27 Oct 2006 08:08:40 -0700, "KJH" <k_jh77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Vast set
of registers to use, with usually funny names like R0 - R20 etc...

More and more virtual machines move from register-based to stack-based
architecture (eg. Lua 5.1 or Parrot) and more and more programming
languages/environments use virtual machines, sometimes supported by
on-the-fly compilation.

Therefore we'll see processors with ever more registers coming.

Assembler programmers will have a hard time writing general purpose
macros. But assemblers will be very valuable optimization tools.
Disassembling and code analysis must go hand in hand with that.



Andreas
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1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
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