Demystifying Registers
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Let’s go under the hood and learn about registers.Registers are internal memory storage locations the processor utilizes to more efficiently process data. If not for registers, the processor would be forced to interact with the control bus anytime it wanted to read or write data from memory.Registers are similar to variables, except there are a fixed number of registers on any given architecture. Registers store data elements for processing without having to dive deep and access the memory. More specifically, each register is a special location in the CPU where a single piece of data is stored. Often, registers hold pointers which reference other locations in memory — and movement of values between registers is very common. There are ten different registers in the 32-bit IA-32 (...)
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