Phil Hassey wrote:
But with a processor with > 16 registers (do such things exist?). Parrot would be overflowing registers that it could have been using in the JIT.
RISC processor have a lot of them. But before there are unused processor registers, we will allocate P and S registers too. When a CPU has more then 4*32 free registers, we will look again.
Like IA64? AFAIK it has 128 integer registers and 128 fp registers...