On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Frank Mittelbach <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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. -- Morten