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		pmalynin on Sept 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ARM immediate value encoding I'd love to see an Isa that uses something like a modified Huffman coding. That way you can have jump instructions have 30 bit immediates.

phs2501 on Sept 21, 2015 [–]

SPARC. The CALL instruction takes a 30-bit immediate. http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~scott/456/local_only/sparcv7.pd... Also the Mill talks seem to indicate that their (variable-length) instruction encoding is machine-generated to be as efficient as possible.

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