[Gllug] Kernel compile taking forever...!

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On Wed, 02 Feb 2005, Tethys prattled cheerily:
> Andrew Halliwell writes:
>>Opteron's a different kettle of fish though.
>>Any penalty you get from increased load times should be more than negated by
>>the fact you've to a boatload of new registers, which of course, should
>>reduce memory requests and thus, increase speed.
> 
> I don't know how much you know about the UltraSPARC, but shortage of
> registers is not one of its failings...

You could say.

I've often thought that the SPARC family would make wonderful Lisp
machines, or something else where the thing that uses the stack is some
sort of virtual machine that never gets task-switched out. You'd *really*
see some improvements from the register windowing system then, rather
than as now, where the register windows become a boat anchor whenever
you context switch.

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