Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer From: Conor O'Neill Subject: Re: Short memories Organization: Home Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 17:42:03 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: In article , Alec Cawley writes >The main >impediment to fast switching is the baggage already mentioned. The >transputer overcame this by cutting the context which needed to be saved >to the absolute minimum of three registers. The ARM has 16 registers >which you would normally need to save and restore. This makes the task >switch inherently slower than an equivalent-technology transputer. Simple solution: Don't use all 16 registers. -- Conor O'Neill, at home in Bristol, UK "It's state of the art." "But it doesn't work". "That is the state of the art!"