Gregory's Server@kenshirriff I assume there's some sort of incredible advantage to having bit aligned instructions that offsets all the additional complexity on top of byte aligned ones? You save some bits of storage, sure, but...
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@kenshirriff I assume there's some sort of incredible advantage to having bit aligned instructions that offsets all the additional complexity on top of byte aligned ones? You save some bits of storage, sure, but... 1 comment
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@Lalufu Bit-alignment was supposed to improve instruction density so you could get more instructions with fewer memory accesses. But it turned out that the 432's instruction density wasn't as good as regular processors in most cases, so it was a bad idea.