Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by h1439878.stratoserver.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-2build1) with SMTP id o8GAfXWJ019636 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:41:34 +0200 Received: (qmail 6432 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2010 10:41:28 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2010 10:41:27 -0000 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay2.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.210.211] by mx0.gmx.net (mx070) with SMTP; 16 Sep 2010 12:41:27 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o8GAdQlm010476 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:39:27 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o8GAQXJd028362; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:39:49 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 451960 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:39:49 +0200 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o8GAdnNK018066 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:39:49 +0200 Received: from mail-iw0-f177.google.com (mail-iw0-f177.google.com [209.85.214.177]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o8GAdEWs030740 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:39:18 +0200 Received: by iwn36 with SMTP id 36so1344702iwn.22 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:39:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.185.142 with SMTP id co14mr2842180ibb.97.1284633582723; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:39:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.143.204 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:39:42 -0700 (PDT) References: <19109.1284579373@cl.cam.ac.uk> <4C9122A1.4060008@morningstar2.co.uk> <4C91239B.2040301@morningstar2.co.uk> <4C912F95.70503@morningstar2.co.uk> <19601.55875.121644.485219@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <19601.61974.825954.761568@morse.mittelbach-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Whitelist: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id o8GAdnNK018067 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:39:42 +0200 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Morten_H=F8gholm?= Subject: Re: e-TeX low-level expertise needed Re: Allocation of registers To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: <19601.61974.825954.761568@morse.mittelbach-online.de> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p4WX0t+AtsdW2ORvUlAfcdSIdQlIL3FTSFQDxQiodii41fjuqHQd8jenp0+N dNY0CcAB8WAv7r3OtvsaDOOiC4T8TWFW3c0h9kbMpE0/ou/MWvK8X//VR9J5RqCotAZER8h4O06e mC19Q==V1; X-Resent-By: Forwarder X-Resent-For: rainer.schoepf@gmx.net X-Resent-To: rainer@rainer-schoepf.de Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6389 On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Frank Mittelbach 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