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Those are the architectural registers. Physical registers also include those extra ones needed to implement register renaming to eliminate data dependencies. ht
by pkaye 8y ago
Those are the architectural registers. Physical registers also include those extra ones needed to implement register renaming to eliminate data dependencies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_renaming#Architectural_versus_physical_registers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_renaming#Architectura...
- bogomipz 8y agoThanks, right I was confusing ISA level registers with those at the implementation/micro arch level. Cheers.