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From: "Jon Prestidge (alias Moose)" <zmoose@premier.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.codewarrior
Subject: Re: register variables
Date: 21 Jul 1998 10:21:42 GMT
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No -- sorry S1 does seem to be available most of the time too.
So that's two register variables to play with (plus the colouring of them)
- not too bad.

I tried rejigging a little maths routine I wrote so that it just used two
register variables for the main bulk of it, and it made the disassembly
quite a lot, lot shorter...  it did away with most of the loading and then
writing back of variables to memory that occurs on almost every line of C. 
 Probably well worth it on routines that get executed hundreds of times per
frame.