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They've tried variations of this. It takes instruction bits to describe these registers: 32 regs is 5 bits, target + src1 + src2 is 15 bits already. They've tried scratch pads. The Mill CPU's Belt is yet another approach.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratchpad_memory
  https://millcomputing.com/
  How to Use 1000 Registers
  https://caltechconf.library.caltech.edu/200/
1000 registers would be 10 bits. So they tried register windows.

These are all good ideas but they get to compete. So far, I'm a huge AArch64 fan but I now see the purpose of RISC-V. I watched Chris Lattner's ASPLOS talk and it finally clicked.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HgShra-KnY



I know... and it's quite interesting really, but for the purpose of this thread, I think it's safe to say that the CPU-wallahs spend considerable effort on ways to lighten or avoid register pressure, and from that I infer that all of the currently widely used CPUs do have significant pressure.

Much more on the x86 than on sane architectures, of course.




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