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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: Split instruction and immediate stream
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 21:43:40 -0000 (UTC)
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Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> schrieb:
> 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 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 have not looked at the link, but I would be quite surprised if the 
> idea isn't already covered by one or more Mill patents.
>
> Mill does indeed split the instruction stream in two, it is one of the 
> enablers for supporting a lot more instructions/cycle.

I was a bit imprecise - the idea is to have instructions in one
position, the constants they operate on in the other.

But speaking of Mill - it's been very quiet for quite some time
now...