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I'm sure that Arm must have done a lot of analysis around this issue when AArch64 was being developed. After all the relatively simple Thumb extension had been
by klelatti 5y ago
I'm sure that Arm must have done a lot of analysis around this issue when AArch64 was being developed.
After all the relatively simple Thumb extension had been part of the Arm ISA for a long time (and was arguably one of the reasons for its success) and they still decided to go for fixed width.