Aha, Morten The Scientist!! Thanks for the data. -----Morten Høgholm <[log in to unmask]> wrote: ----- To: [log in to unmask] From: Morten Høgholm <[log in to unmask]> Date: 16/09/2010 11:39 Subject: Re: e-TeX low-level expertise needed Re: Allocation of registers 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302)