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Are registers program/thread independent?

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:20 pm
by Dreglor
I was pondering ways to optimize a project of mine and when the question came to me; do CPU registers such as SSE registers stay local with a thread or is globally accessed between all threads?

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:05 pm
by Fred
I think it is the case, it would be really difficult to handle else. Regular CPU registers are preserved between thread for sure.