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|    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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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