Re: Split instruction and immediate stream

Thomas Koenig wrote:

There was a recent post to the gcc mailing list which showed
interesting concept of dealing with large constants in an ISA:
Splitting a the instruction and constant stream.  It can be found
at https://github.com/michaeljclark/glyph/ , and is named "glyph".
 I think the problem the author is trying to solve is better addressed by
My 66000 (and I would absolutely _hate_ to write an assembler for it).
Still, I thought it worth mentioning.
 

I have not looked at the link, but I would be quite surprised if the idea isn't already covered by one or more Mill patents.
Mill does indeed split the instruction stream in two, it is one of the enablers for supporting a lot more instructions/cycle.
Terje
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