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|    Hans-Peter Diettrich to Tim Frink    |
|    Re: Register Renaming    |
|    04 Nov 08 19:07:29    |
      From: DrDiettrich1@aol.com              Tim Frink schrieb:              > I'm looking for some references on register renaming (i.e. how it can       > be implemented in a compiler). I couldn't find any useful references       > neither on the Internet nor in any papers/books. Do you have a hint for       > me?              AFAIK "register renaming" is used only inside a CPU. A compiler would       use e.g. SSA (single static assignment) or graph coloring for register       (re)allocation instead.              DoDi       [You're right, it's a hardware technique. Perhaps he's thinking of software       pipelining or something like that. -John]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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