alt Hacker NewsEven though this post is from 2020, it’s still a classic reference. It’s especially relevant now to revisit this baseline considering Intel’s APX which aims to double the GPRs to 32. Understanding how we got here is key to appreciating where the architecture is headed next.
One thing that has happened since 2020 is that recent AMD CPUs support AVX-512, so that raises the number of registers by 16+16+32.