Tyan S4880

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Dec 2 11:14:01 CET 2003


On 1 Dec 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Ron one thing you did note was the changing of word accesses to byte
> accesses.  With romcc that does not help in the case of register pressure.

I would think it would hurt since x86 lets you use those little 
sub-registers (puddle arithmetic), so using bigger registers reduces the 
number of registers available.

ron




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