I just had this little "hah!" moment...

I keep thinking about how to make FC1 much more badass. While writing one of the latest logs of #PDP - Processor Design Principles  I realised I could/should have more than one data register per address register.

For example, 4 address registers are linked to one data register, and 4 other address registers are linked to 4 data registers each. Advantages include :

• much faster and lighter call/return (it would emulate register windows sans their drawbacks)
• faster register save and backup
• better memory bandwidth
• solves loop unrolling
• fewer aliasing problems ?
• easier unaligned access in one cycle (by combining 2 pipelines for a 2R2W instruction)
• reduces the number of address registers and pointer update instructions

It looks like a weird mix between Itanium, SPARC and TMS9900... I have to ponder more about it but the overwhelming benefits are enticing.

I also have to find a proper behaviour for pointer aliases, should they trap ?