On 25/04/2012, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > it's not like the registers are real on a modern x86 machine in any mode > after renaming, etc. and this is also offset somewhat by the fact that > pointers are now twice as big.
It can rename them but I can't name them, so I can't keep any more variables in the core at a time. > also, in case you missed it sizeof(int)==sizeof(long)==4 on both 32 > and 64 bit plan 9, so recompiled programs won't get bigger integers > just for the recompiling. What the hell? This is a waste and a fault. long at least ought to be at least a machine word.
