...bits you need on two 64 bit registers or one SSE register. I haven't...

...specialized scanline triggered processor writing to hardware registers) on the Amiga. No way you could...

...do something complex that causes all the registers to be reused
    // => the only reference to...

...calling conventions and how the stack and registers work. But take this as an example...

...the first few parameters are passed in registers, and the same is probably true for...

...bigints example, most compilers only use them if they don't fit into registers.


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Paulo

...unnecessary clobbering of the few precious cpu registers available etc.

What Bearophile is saying is...

...the first few arguments are passed in registers and the remaining on the stack. On...

...you are usually better off using SIMD registers IMO. After all store forwarding is only...

...only time when the number of named registers is significant these days
is the fastcall...