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But AMD also increased the number of general-purpose registers from ~6 in x86 (eax to edx and the not fully general purpose esi, edi, esp, ebp) to ~16 in AMD64
by ahartmetz 8y ago
But AMD also increased the number of general-purpose registers from ~6 in x86 (eax to edx and the not fully general purpose esi, edi, esp, ebp) to ~16 in AMD64 (rax to r16). ARM has ~32.