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It's true that the need for instruction scheduling is reduced in an OoO processor, but now you're comparing it to a processor that does not do OoO and hence needs to expose its entire register set as architectural registers. A compiler for an OoO processor still needs to be aware that under the hood there are 160 registers that can be used instead of 14 (at least if it wants to generate the most efficient code).


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