From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Tom <tom.primozic@gmail.com>
Cc: Caml-list List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] More registers in modern day CPUs
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:07:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070906090709.GA11869@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1490a380709052320l792fae9ew2013618cd5917cc0@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:20:06AM +0200, Tom wrote:
> I was thinking about compiler implementation recently, and figured that it
> is difficult to design the compiler for a variable number of hardware
> registers - compared for designing a compiler witha fixed number of
> registers.
>
> However, would it be possible to "emulate" cpu registers using software? By
> keeping registers in the main memory, but accessing them often enough to
> keep them in primary cache? That would be quite fast I believe...
You might want to grab a good book on compilers and read about
register allocation. Or take a look at this Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_allocation
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 6:20 Tom
2007-09-06 7:17 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-09-06 9:07 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2007-09-06 14:55 ` Chris King
2007-09-06 15:17 ` Brian Hurt
2007-09-06 15:54 ` Harrison, John R
2007-09-06 17:10 ` David MENTRE
2007-09-06 18:27 ` Harrison, John R
2007-09-06 18:28 ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-09-06 18:48 ` Brian Hurt
2007-09-06 18:48 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2007-11-20 15:32 ` [Caml-list] OCalm on Sony PS3 (was Re: More registers in modern day CPUs) Mike Hogan
2007-11-21 17:20 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-21 19:05 ` [Caml-list] OCaml " Mike Hogan
2007-11-23 6:44 ` Mike Hogan
2007-12-02 10:14 ` [Caml-list] OCalm " Xavier Leroy
2007-12-02 16:22 ` Mike Hogan
2007-12-02 22:19 ` Konrad Meyer
2007-12-03 0:09 ` [Caml-list] OCaml " Mike Hogan
2007-12-03 20:16 ` minithread (was OCaml on Sony PS3) Christophe Raffalli
2007-12-04 14:25 ` [Caml-list] " David MENTRE
2007-12-04 14:37 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2007-12-04 16:25 ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-12-04 17:33 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-12-04 18:00 ` Mike Hogan
2007-12-04 2:29 ` [Caml-list] OCalm on Sony PS3 (was Re: More registers in modern day CPUs) Gordon Henriksen
2007-09-06 20:48 ` [Caml-list] More registers in modern day CPUs Richard Jones
[not found] ` <20070906204524.GB10798@furbychan.cocan.org>
2007-09-06 20:59 ` Chris King
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