Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2
by pjc50 on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:09AM
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Bit aligned instructions? Yeah, that definitely sounds mad, like my joke proposal that instructions should be Huffman-coded so the frequent ones take fewer bits. Might make sense if you're doing a microcontroller with a few K of ROM and need to save bits, but otherwise no.
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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2
by AnimalMuppet on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:06PM
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I'm not sure that you'd do that even on a microcontroller. If you don't have the ROM space, you probably also don't have the transistor budget for the decoder you'd need to handle that.