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The instruction encoding seems inefficient -- they don't use the full 4 bits of information (the first bit is always zero except for `.`). Why not use a 3-bit e
by subleq 10y ago
The instruction encoding seems inefficient -- they don't use the full 4 bits of information (the first bit is always zero except for `.`). Why not use a 3-bit encoding, since there are 8 instructions?
- Xorlev 10y agoThey have 9 states including a stop instruction, b`1111 which would preclude a 3-bit encoding. In any case, I suspect it's much easier to handle 4-bit words.