mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) (07/16/88)
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