I don't know if you lived through the early RISC days, but it was really a bit of a bother when dealing with things that weren't words. but sure, its wasn't tha

I don't know if you lived through the early RISC days, but it was really a bit of a bother when dealing with things that weren't words. but sure, its wasn't that bad. I just get really tired of all the shift and mask stuff...seems like we should be able to do better. I guess you could paper over it with sufficient language/runtime support