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Note that you can easily 'cheat' on this, especially if you already have the hardware to support unaligned reads. Just load-unaligned a (say) 64-bit 'instructio

by a1369209993 6y ago

Note that you can easily 'cheat' on this, especially if you already have the hardware to support unaligned reads. Just load-unaligned a (say) 64-bit 'instruction' and then only increase IP/PC by however many bytes you actually used.

jacquesm 6y ago
That will carry a pretty heavy performance penalty though.
- a1369209993 6y ago
  Yes, that's what makes it cheating, rather than good parsimonious design that intellegently reuses preexisting resources.