Again, I'm no expert here but find this stuff fascinating. Could the simplicity possibly allow some radically different CPU design that makes the lookups alone

Again, I'm no expert here but find this stuff fascinating. Could the simplicity possibly allow some radically different CPU design that makes the lookups alone nearly instantaneous? I could imagine some types of optical/photonic physical 3D hash table structures - even ones where the same physical structure could support a large number of read operations in parallel if pre-arranged by a compiler to not physically interfere. I imagine a cpu with only one instruction could be physically miniscule, and therefore pack a lot of cores in a small space. Hypothetically, if it were orders of magnitude faster than a normal CPU, one could still perform rapid computation on larger numbers as needed while keeping the cpu physically 8 bit- yet be able to revert to even higher performance when less precision is needed.