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15:08:32
beach
There! Now the description is sufficiently small that there is some hope to get the implementation right.
15:57:26
heisig
I agree, it is save to assume that MOV instructions are dirt cheap.
15:58:17
heisig
If I understood correctly, the most recent AMD CPUs will even attempt to place the topmost stack entries in virtual registers.
15:59:30
heisig
It is actually quite hard (because of x86's bizarre semantics). They only managed to get it to work for some cases.
16:00:09
beach
That too sounds plausible.
16:00:28
beach
I sure hope we can kiss that architecture goodbye fairly soon.
16:00:40
beach
And I hope ARM is not further behind.
16:03:39
heisig
I am optimistic - it is only natural that architectural details become important now that manufacturing hits its limits.
16:03:55
beach
Let's hope you are right.
23:41:49
no-defun-allowed
Thanks, I found the "update file" link.