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The biggest issue with adding those op code is the lack of space for every op code to support between every type IIRC. every new type exponentially increases th
by zbowling 15y ago
The biggest issue with adding those op code is the lack of space for every op code to support between every type IIRC. every new type exponentially increases the number of operations. Being that we can only 255 op code in Java, it causes a bit of a problem. In CIL/MSIL in .NET, they used a multibyte technique with flag bits IIRC. (Don't quote me but I'm recalling designs I seen 8 years ago here).