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My brain immediately jumped to musical register from your title, FWIW. So in my case, it worked well.
by burntsushi 4y ago
My brain immediately jumped to musical register from your title, FWIW. So in my case, it worked well.
- karmakaze 4y agoI first thought CPU register, ruled it out and then vocal registers, and finally formal speech registers in some foreign languages.
- bqmjjx0kac 4y agoI immediately assumed the post would discuss some algorithm that rustc uses to allocate CPU registers, but I was puzzled because I thought that would be abstracted away by LLVM.
- rob74 4y agoFunny... after I read about the registers of (natural) languages, that reminded me of the "registers" of pipe organs, which are quite similar in a way: it's still the same instrument, but sounds different depending on what register(s) you use. Except that in English these are called "stops" for some reason (as in "pull out all the stops" - which in the programming sense introduced in the article would mean a wild mix of programming styles, probably not something you'd want to see). Oh, well...