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Many processors do have this and expose it to programmers, it’s called “register windows” (though usually used for procedure calls). Or you can have banked registers, which often serve different privilege levels. Once you start looking at the microarchitectural level, you’ll find that modern processors have large register files and rename them into the architecturally visible ones.



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