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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
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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.
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