register set

All a processor's registers. The size and arrangement of a processor's register set is one of the crucial factors in its performance.

register spilling

<programming, compiler>

(By analogy with spilling the contents of an overfull container) When a compiler is performing the register allocation phase of generating machine code and there are more live variables than the machine has registers and it has to transfer or "spill" some variables from registers to memory.

Last updated: 2014-08-02

Nearby terms:

registered port ♦ register set ♦ register spilling ♦ Register Transfer Language

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