From lecture: We may think that CPU registers are extremely fast to read and write to since they are so close to the processor, but operating on registers isn't free. Furthermore, the performance of the registers is inversely proportional to the total amount of memory they can hold.
From lecture: We may think that CPU registers are extremely fast to read and write to since they are so close to the processor, but operating on registers isn't free. Furthermore, the performance of the registers is inversely proportional to the total amount of memory they can hold.