The design of MIPS provides for 32 general-purpose registers and 32 floating-point registers. If registers are good,

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The design of MIPS provides for 32 general-purpose registers and 32 floating-point registers. If registers are good, are more registers better? List and discuss as many trade-offs as you can that should be considered by instruction set architecture designers examining whether to, and how much to, increase the number of MIPS registers.

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Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach

ISBN: 978-8178672663

5th edition

Authors: John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson

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