Re: Keeping other stuff with addresses (was: What is an N-bit machine?)

anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:

These days I'd say the relevant N is the size of arithmetic registers but a
lot of marketers appear to disagree with me.

>
Which arithmetic registers on an Intel processor?  The 64 bits of a
GPR?  The 128 bits of an XMM register?  The 256 bits of a YMM
register?  The 512 bits of a ZMM register?

The Cray-1 is even more interesting in that respect.  Is it a 4096-bit
machine?  I think there are also vector machines where you can
configure N bits into more shorter or fewer longer registers.

- anton
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