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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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Subject: Re: Split instruction and immediate stream
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 17:53:34 +0000
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On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 14:21:51 +0000, Thomas Koenig wrote:

> There was a recent post to the gcc mailing list which showed
> interesting concept of dealing with large constants in an ISA:
> Splitting a the instruction and constant stream.  It can be found
> at https://github.com/michaeljclark/glyph/ , and is named "glyph".

I knew a guy with that name at AMD--he did microcode--and did it well.

> I think the problem the author is trying to solve is better addressed by
> My 66000 (and I would absolutely _hate_ to write an assembler for it).
> Still, I thought it worth mentioning.

I took a quick look, and it seems that
a) too few registers
b) too many OpCode bits
although it does look easy to parse.