16 Jan
2012
16 Jan
'12
10:02
Anton Aylward wrote:
John Andersen said the following on 01/14/2012 03:45 PM:
But not all applications have that need, and lots of things work just fine with smaller registers.
For example, most loops are just fine with 8-bit registers ...
I suspect, that somewhere in the history of computing, there have been machines with small registers dedicated to loop counting.
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