Re: Now, why didn't we think of this before?

Ingo Molnar (mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at)
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:40:25 +0100 (MET)


> 1. Every one talks about registers, is the next generation hardware
> going to have this many or that many etc. etc., the virtual machine should
> not have registers --- just memory.

damn, registers are plain memory as well, just different indexing. Think
of them as 'level 0 cache'. followed by level 1 2 3 caches and physical
memory and swap and ...

-- mingo