someone (someone.delete@this.somewhere.com) on August 30, 2013 11:15 pm wrote:
> Brett (ggtgp.delete@this.yahoo.com) on August 30, 2013 6:42 pm wrote:
>
> > For a truly high end system the split register files are a bonus, the Alpha CPU tried splitting
> > odd and even registers to separate register file ALU blocks for higher performance.
>
> Wrong. The EV6 core had two physical copies of the GPR file because the four integer
> units were organized as two clusters to minimize read port count and wire load. This
> had absolutely nothing to do with logical splitting of GPRs, odd/even or otherwise.

You are making my point for me, we need register partitioning today.