By: Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org), November 21, 2014 10:14 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Paul A. Clayton (paaronclayton.delete@this.gmail.com) on November 21, 2014 5:29 am wrote:
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> General registers did rotate
They didn't just rotate, they gyrated.
There was the "big rotation" - the whole stack engine (which was rotation with spill/reload to and from memory), and then there was the small conditional sub-rotation for the modulo scheduling of loops of a 8-register subset within the big set of registers.
Linus
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> General registers did rotate
They didn't just rotate, they gyrated.
There was the "big rotation" - the whole stack engine (which was rotation with spill/reload to and from memory), and then there was the small conditional sub-rotation for the modulo scheduling of loops of a 8-register subset within the big set of registers.
Linus