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by MrBuddyCasino 3434 days ago
Most importantly, the ESP32 has register windows.
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Right, this is the kind of information I was looking for (maybe some actual ISA documentation; the instruction encoding method itself, etc).

But for this specific point -- I thought all of the Xtensa series used register windows? Or did they both have them but the ESP8266 never actually use them (somehow?)

The xtensa series is highly configurable, afaik the ESP8266 doesn't have them in hardware.

This is second hand knowledge though.