Re: Green Compiler ?

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From	"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com>
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"glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
> Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> wrote:
>
>     [snip...]                     [snip...]                     [snip...]
>
>> For that reason some (Texas Instruments?) processors implemented a
>> register stack, decades ago, with its stack pointer adjusted according
>> to the number of registers used in a subroutine. This stack could be
>> moved into the CPU nowadays, eliminating the need for saving registers
>> in external memory.
>
> If I remember the TMS9900, the registers were in memory, so that
> pointer just changed where in memory they were.

The TMS9900 did allocate the register "file" in memory, with a pointer
in the CPU to indicate the position of the register file.  Some
versions of the chip had some on-board RAM that could be used for
register allocation.  This RAM was faster to access and would speed
along execution.

--

numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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Green Compiler ? Abid <abidmuslim@gmail.com> - 2012-12-20 02:00 -0800
  Re: Green Compiler ? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-23 08:18 +0000
    Re: Green Compiler ? Peter Dassow <z80eu@arcor.de> - 2012-12-26 19:31 +0100
      Re: Green Compiler ? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-28 03:09 +0000
      Re: Green Compiler ? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2012-12-28 08:35 +0100
        Re: Green Compiler ? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-28 16:14 +0000
        Re: Green Compiler ? Peter Dassow <z80eu@arcor.de> - 2012-12-29 09:35 +0100
          Re: Green Compiler ? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2012-12-30 08:14 +0100
            Re: Green Compiler ? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2012-12-31 01:24 -0500
              Re: Green Compiler ? "Jonathan Thornburg" <jthorn@astro.indiana.edu> - 2013-01-02 04:09 +0000
                Re: Green Compiler ? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-01-02 18:29 +0000
              Re: Green Compiler ? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-01-02 05:11 +0000
              Re: Green Compiler ? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2013-01-02 07:29 +0100
                Re: Green Compiler ? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-01-02 19:52 +0000
                Re: Green Compiler ? "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2013-01-04 08:59 -0600
  Re: Green Compiler ? "Nils M Holm" <nmh@t3x.org> - 2012-12-23 10:01 +0100
    Re: Green Compiler ? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2012-12-24 05:16 +0100
    Re: Green Compiler ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-12-27 13:36 +0000
      Re: Green Compiler ? "Nils M Holm" <nmh@t3x.org> - 2012-12-28 09:11 +0100
        Re: Green Compiler ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-12-28 16:57 +0000
        Re: Green Compiler ? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2012-12-28 12:57 -0500
          Re: Green Compiler ? "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-12-30 09:22 +0100
    Re: Green Compiler ? Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-12-27 21:59 -0600
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