Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Savard Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Why I've Dropped In Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:03:33 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <105r14k$c7mi$1@dont-email.me> References: <0c857b8347f07f3a0ca61c403d0a8711@www.novabbs.com> <8addb3f96901904511fc9350c43917ef@www.novabbs.com> <102b5qh$1q55a$2@dont-email.me> <102bj2r$1tbgq$1@dont-email.me> <2f6bcdcbaab67f8b0d47a13d2a049527@www.novabbs.org> <44ebed18f4d36e5025958ea1d4afeea1@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="562251ec8fe827071acfe7a48b124da2"; logging-data="401106"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+7Bws7ko3CWvSKhtvywPs9wcrij8Pcu48=" User-Agent: Pan/0.146 (Hic habitat felicitas; d7a48b4 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan.git) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zgvrlVvQF6UKR2ph8/sOI4lkZWU= On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:46:42 +0000, quadibloc wrote: > More importantly, I need 256-character strings if I'm using them as > translate tables. Fine, I can use a pair of registers for a long string. I've realized now that I can have eight 256-character string registers if I instead use the extended register bank of 128 floating-point registers for the string registers; this provides another use for a set of registers that would otherwise be little used outside of VLIW code. John Savard