Re: Split instruction and immediate stream

Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> schrieb:

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.
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Mill does indeed split the instruction stream in two, it is one of the
enablers for supporting a lot more instructions/cycle.

I was a bit imprecise - the idea is to have instructions in one
position, the constants they operate on in the other.

But speaking of Mill - it's been very quiet for quite some time
now...