Re: the bitslice method

James Johnson (plexus@seanet.com)
Thu, 29 May 1997 13:19:44 -0700

At 14:26 29.05.97 -0700, you wrote:
>well, they are improving though.
>Pentium II has 40 general purpose + 8 mmx registers (and mmx deals with 64
>bit integers in its calculations)
>AMD K6 has 48 general purrpose + 8 mmx registers.

Most of these 'general purpose registers' your speaking of are not directly
addressable by a programmer. They are used for such things like register
renaming.

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