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Arguably x86 only has a compressed encoding in the sense that super common instructions often fit in fewer than 4 bytes and some of the most used ones are 1 byt
by pizlonator 6y ago
Arguably x86 only has a compressed encoding in the sense that super common instructions often fit in fewer than 4 bytes and some of the most used ones are 1 byte. I don’t think the compression is deliberate or optimal though.