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From: John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Stealing a Great Idea from the 6600
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:54:00 -0600
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:22:12 -0600, John Savard
<quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:

>But fully half the opcode space is allocated to 16-bit instructions.
>EVen though that half doesn't really play nice with other things, it's
>too tempting a target to ignore. But the price would be losing the
>fully parallel nature of decoding.

After heading out to buy groceries, my head cleared enough to discard
the various complicated and bizarre schemes I was considering to deal
with the issue, and instead to drastically reduce the overhead for the
instructions longer than 32 bits, now that this had become a major
concern due to also usiing this format for prefixed instructions as
well, in a simple and straightforward manner.

John Savard