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A small, extremely fast storage location inside the CPU used to hold data being actively processed.
x86_64 has 16 general purpose registers (RAX, RBX, RCX, RDX, RSI, RDI, RBP, RSP, R8-R15). ARM AArch64 has 31 (X0-X30). Registers are orders of magnitude faster than cache or memory.