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   Rayiner Hashem to All   
   Re: Pitfalls in interference graph ?   
   01 Oct 07 23:48:58   
   
   From: rayiner@gmail.com   
      
   > > I am trying to implement Briggs Optimistic register allocator after   
   > > reading the the thesis written by Preston Briggs.   
   >   
   > > Now for building the interference graph what other than register pairs   
   > > is there any other issues that one has to look out for?   
   >   
   > This a pretty old method of register allocation that do no longer work   
   > well. Indeed, it was designed for the case of sequential processors.   
   > Nowadays, processors implement instruction level parallelism. The   
   > register allocation problem changed, and the old graph coloring   
   > methods became useless.   
      
   Huh? Where is the dependence on sequential processing in graph   
   coloring allocation? Moreover, only a few non mainstream archs expose   
   non sequential semantics at the ISA level anyway.   
      
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