On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Frank Mittelbach
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> Chris Rowley writes:
>
>  > A vaguer question: Is the level of the relatively efficiency of the types
>  > of register of any practical consequence in the 21st century?
>
> I was wondering about that too, guess the only way to find out is to make some
> experiments

I carried out some experiments with this a few years ago and found the
count registers from the extended pool to be only slightly slower (5%
or so) than the ones from the normal pool.


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