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True, depending on what you mean by "bit". I'm not sure it is entirely trivial to interconnect the instruction-parsing parts, and memory operations might also b
by likpok 17y ago
True, depending on what you mean by "bit". I'm not sure it is entirely trivial to interconnect the instruction-parsing parts, and memory operations might also be interesting. The ALU would be pretty simple, but you'd lose a lot of speed there (assuming something else didn't kill you first), as even if you have two CLA's (seems unlikely, given the additional complexity), you'd double the time it would take to stabilize the outputs.
- jonsen 17y agoMy point is, that just characterizing a CPU by saying it's an n-bit architecture, doesn't say very much about the complexity of the real thing. You should not fall prey to the (in other contexts appropriate) assumption that an increase of one bit inherently doubles complexity (confusing linear with exponential).