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That's opposed to the view often put forward by FP advocates. Tell us more.
by gbacon 9y ago
That's opposed to the view often put forward by FP advocates. Tell us more.
- agumonkey 9y agoOld cpus had a simpler arch (68000 ancestor or something like that), often with two registers A,B serving as accumulator,next pair for reduce/fold like processes. To me it's clearly a reflection of mathematical structures, which are also the root of FP. With time register sets grew, ISA grew, this got muddied by usage.