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How is it abstracted away from the actual assembly? Sure, you don't know how large the belt is, but you can just use the smallest size. The entire point of the
by benchaney 9y ago
How is it abstracted away from the actual assembly? Sure, you don't know how large the belt is, but you can just use the smallest size. The entire point of the belt is that the overwhelming majority of the time you only need the front few elements. The other major difference is the presence of extra special purpose instructions. That is exactly what feature flags are primarily used for.
- reitzensteinm 9y agoThe amount and type of execution units will also impact the translation. Each mill cpu has a custom encoding format generated to match its resources. x86 has essentially a bidirectional 1:1 mapping between the assembly and the bytes directly executed by the cpu. The mill does not have that.