Re: Dynamic register frames?

2002-05-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:51 AM -0400 5/20/02, Mike Lambert wrote: >Now, my proposal is simply that instead of hardcoding to 32 elements, we >allow the function to determine the number of elements in each register >type. This gives us: I actually considered that at one point, back at the beginning. I went with the f

Dynamic register frames?

2002-05-19 Thread Mike Lambert
I may be approaching semi-radical territory here with this idea. I've read all the FAQs and reasons on why we choose a register architecture versus a stack architecture. However, I recently thought of a combination idea which, (although it was probably discovered in the 70s sometime,) I think pro