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  • It is indeed rooted in personal disbelief, which is why I asked for whether there was a justification for picking the order that was picked (hence providing justification to the argument), or if that alignment didn't matter in the first place at the time (hence dispelling the possible argument). Do you mean to say that there's no real answer and that it's just so? If that's the case, maybe editing the answer a bit to clarify would make it a good answer for the question Commented Mar 3 at 0:27
  • I did exactly describe why that belief may be relevant for general purpose CPU registers + integer ALUs, and is not relevant for FPUs. Is the issue that you didn't understand the answer, or that you don't understand the difference between an integer ALU and the original floating-point co-processors, or what? Commented Mar 3 at 21:30
  • I understand the answer, but I feel it leaves the trio of actual questions in my OP incompletely answered Commented Mar 5 at 0:37
  • I've spelled it out, but everything I just wrote comes directly from the original answer. Commented Mar 5 at 8:58