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Opcode space is limited on fixed-width instruction CPUs and expensive on CPUs with potentially ‘unlimited’ numbers of instructions such as the x86. Why waste p
by Someone 4y ago
Opcode space is limited on fixed-width instruction CPUs and expensive on CPUs with potentially ‘unlimited’ numbers of instructions such as the x86.
Why waste part of it if you can instead take it from an instruction that already wasted some opcode space?