Register allocation

  • Authors:
  • Preston Briggs

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A register is one of a small number of high-speed memory locations in a computer's central processing unit (q.v.). Registers differ from ordinary memory locations in several respects: