Re: My 66000 and High word facility

On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 18:17:54 +0000, Brett wrote:

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My 66000 should look into the z/architecture High Word Facility as that
would give you another 65% more registers or so. You have the opcode
space and it is Another nice boost for some customers.
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IBM supports Linux, so the compiler support should exist. X86 solved the
aliasing issue with finer tracking.

x86 (the x is lower case) solved the problem at great cost to various
implementations. The AMD *doze family could not perform forwarding of
these lower or upper portions of registers and its performance suffered.
The high/low stuff makes it very difficult to do forwarding when the
clock cycle is less than 14-gates per cycle.
After x86 grew out of its 8-register only enclave and went with 16
(later
32) GPRs; register pressure went down markedly.

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Thanks,
Brett