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Subject: Re: Are stack machines inherently faster?
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On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 17:15:42 -0800 (PST)
hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:

> 2.) Registers are very expensive in terms of hardware resources, so
> you can't have a lot.

Why?

Modern processors have large caches and multiple layers of them.
There is no reason that a register file can't be just as large.


Rod Pemberton