I had not seen it and it's a really bad idea. (And I don't really get what the point is in writing a couple thousand words of speculation about it instead of just asking in the first place.)
But unfortunately I don't think we're talking about the same thing? It sounds like you're talking about actually having individual memory operands for every place you would have a register.
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I am talking about having memory-backed register file. It still may be that the things you're mentioning are a problem, but I'm not sure I understand exactly why they would be a problem from the (Twitter-limited) explanation.
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Another way to say it would be, I am asking why we don't memory map registers the way we memory map files, for the same reasons (so the _processor_ knows where they would go when they need to be swapped out).
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