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kevin_thibedeautoday at 1:47 PM1 replyview on HN

It's a definite liability on a machine with only 8 general purpose registers. Losing 12% of the register space for a constant would be a waste of hardware.


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menaerustoday at 2:08 PM

8 registers? Ever heard of register renaming?

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