From: quadibloc@invalid.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:03:28 +0000, John Savard wrote:   
      
   > If I took the various methods to make more compact instructions, and   
   > combined them all, going all out, I could make memory-reference   
   > instructions that were only 22 bits long. That would leave enough room   
   > to allow them to be _predicated_ without a header!   
      
   Alas, no. Even making instructions as short as possible to exist in a   
   limited form does _not_ permit them to coexist with the existing full   
   instruction set as I had hoped in this particular fashion.   
      
   It may, however, be possible to salvage something from this idea.   
      
   John Savard   
      
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