Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ames!vsi1!wyse!mips!mark From: mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: more registers Keywords: FFT benchmark M88K Message-ID: <2604@obiwan.mips.COM> Date: 15 Jul 88 21:54:30 GMT References: <249@granite.dec.com> Reply-To: mark@mips.COM Organization: don't bet on it Lines: 8 Sure... use a pipelined machine whose architecture defines floating point registers separate and distinct from general purpose registers. Then, if you desire, you can have e.g. 31 index registers (holding array pointers & strides) _and_ 16 double-precision floating point numbers. -- -- Mark Johnson MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 ...!decwrl!mips!mark (408) 991-0208