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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using registers in a processor?
What happens if a register is not big enough to fit the data that needs to be stored?
In case a register is not big enough to store data, it will be split into several smaller pieces that can fit into the register. This technique is called register spilling. However, this technique may result in a performance penalty because additional instructions are needed to perform the splitting and merging of data.