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Re:Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code by lostdog on Thursday December 09, 2021 @03:34AM (#29495158)
Same reason math uses letters rather than words.

It's easier to pattern match strings that are short.

Having one `mr`/`mw` is confusing, but taking up whole lines with long strings can obscure the logic of the code.

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