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does Multicore come with multimple sets of SIMD register ?

intelbenz
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A single core processor which support SSE2 have 8 corresponding registers.
Does the multicore processor have dedicated and independent registers for each of its core ?

I have a program with utilize many SSE2 instructions. I'm thinking to speed up it with
threading tech by intel TBB. I wonder if the SSE2 registers will suffer the race hazard problem.

Thanks!
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TimP
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Each core, and each logical CPU, has its own physical registers. Race conditions apply only when writingto shared memory locations.

If your application truly benefits from a large number of program-accessible registers, 64-bit mode may be useful (16 xmm registers).

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