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Re:One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz by cpr on Saturday September 10, 2016 @04:53PM (#12470834)
And how do you store the carry bits (this machine only has 2 bits of state)? Or do you encode carries by pure branching?
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Re:One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz by jonsen on Saturday September 10, 2016 @05:17PM (#12470916)
It would be tedious to do it all by pure branching. You would need a 64-way branch for c2. If you can't spare one separate RAM bit for a carry you could store the carries in the c2 location and start the computation of c2 by if (c2==...
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