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To: Paul Engel who wrote (32442)5/21/1999 3:49:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 33344
 
Paul,

Not enough for what?

Modern architectures use registers to store program variables, whereas x86 stores them in memory. The register file can be accessed more quickly and cheaply than the cache, so architectures like Alpha and IA64 have lots and lots of architecturally visible registers for the programmer to use.

Scumbria