In which modern processors continue to surprise me, #1542.

I was just writing up a description of some of the work I've been doing, and describing a bit of code optimization, and wrote the phrase, "stored a 1024-byte array entirely in CPU registers."

And then looked at it sideways, and blinked.

Aren't registers supposed to be ... a lot more limited than that?

In which modern processors continue to surprise me, #1542.

I was just writing up a description of some of the work I've been doing, and describing a bit of code optimization, and wrote the phrase, "stored a 1024-byte array entirely in CPU registers."

And then looked at it sideways, and blinked.

Aren't registers supposed to be ... a lot more limited than that?