ASPLOS Keynote: The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-design by Dr. Chris Lattner

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They've tried variations of this. It takes instruction bits to describe these registers: 32 regs is 5 bits, target + src1 + src2 is 15 bits already. They've tried scratch pads. The Mill CPU's Belt is yet another approach. [LINK] [LINK] How to Use 1000 Registers [LINK] 1000 registers would be 10 bits. So they tried register windows. These are all good ideas but they get to compete. So far, I'm a huge AArch64 fan but I now see the purpose of RISC-V. I watched Chris Lattner's ASPLOS talk and it finally clicked. [this video]

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