An unusual Performance approach using Synthetic registers

[James Mansion]

> application programming in assembler, I found 16 general purpose registers
> not to be enough.

I suspect, however, that this was because you wanted to avoid *coding*
spill logic for registers that were reused infrequently. That's
different for avoiding spills for *material* performance reasons, and
a compiler isn't as lazy as you (or I).

James