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   Message 130,140 of 131,241   
   Robert Finch to All   
   Re: Tonights Tradeoff - constants / rout   
   05 Nov 25 09:56:12   
   
   From: robfi680@gmail.com   
      
   Qupls2026 currently supports 48-bit inline constants. I am debating   
   whether to support 89 and 130-bit inline constants as well. Constant   
   sizes increase by 41-bits due to the 48-bit instruction word size. The   
   larger constants would require more instruction words to be available to   
   be processed in decode. Not sure if it is even possible to pass a   
   constant larger than 64-bits in the machine.   
      
   I just realized that constant operand routing was already in Qupls, I   
   had just not specifically identified it. The operand routing bits are   
   just moved into a postfix instruction word rather than the first   
   instruction word. This gives more bits available in the instruction   
   word. Rather than burn a couple of bits in every R3 type instruction,   
   another couple of opcodes are used to represent constant extensions.   
      
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