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Comment by renox

One thing I noticed with your clever encoding is that you can avoid some nops: instead of having 2 15 bits instructions followed by two nops, you could have two 30 bits instructions, saving maybe a little decoding energy.

Also the 60bit format will really help for loading immediates..

That said I wonder why normal ISA do not contain a 'Load Immediate on Next PC'? And if you want to allow parallel decoding the first byte of the immediate would be a 'special noop' and the first immediate byte would be inside the Load Immediate Next PC instruction instead.

parent renox 2 months ago

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