[comp.arch] more registers

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.
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