15 Jan
2012
15 Jan
'12
13:31
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. After all, its a much simple operation than having a general purpose register that can handle arithmetic and shift etc, and back in the days of valves all that logic was expensive. -- Objects in calendar are closer than they appear. -- Jim Duncan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org