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PeterH
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When a subroutine call is made it shouldn’t be necessary for the spiller to save the state of the entirety of the caller’s belt at once. Give that functional units are tagged with both frame and belt position, I don’t expect the belt would need to be spilled any faster than new values are being produced and old values would drop off the end of the belt had there not been a subroutine call. If the subroutine is short, or uses a different subset of available functional units, it’s possible much of the caller’s belt would not need spilling.