15 Dec
2008
15 Dec
'08
12:43 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Is there any need for any "byte-edness" at
all? Stick with a
convenient word size, make it easy to shift and mask out subfields
and forget about "bytes". You get the benefit of being able to
address more memory with fewer bits if you stick to word addressing.
BIg ENDIAN lives on my machine... :)
I submit that the details of any instruction set over
another hardly
matters, so long as an instruction set is complete (i.e., there's no
"you can't get there from here" situation) and is executed
efficiently.
One instruction computers[1]: Compliment and add, jmp if negitive
are not exactly popular for some reason... Hmmm
Cheers,
Chuck
[1] Something like that anyhow.