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by Validark
2022-08-16, 23:00:05
Forum: forwardcom forum
Topic: Bit addressing
Replies: 8
Views: 32304

Re: Bit addressing

Thanks to everyone for the discussion. I would first like to say that I am of course aware that you can do bit masks and shifts to figure out if a particular bit position is set. I also appreciate what Webenson Diolen said about word-aligned instructions, and I was not advocating that instructions w...
by Validark
2022-05-12, 13:18:06
Forum: forwardcom forum
Topic: Bit addressing
Replies: 8
Views: 32304

Bit addressing

Hello, I was wondering whether FowardCom should let bits be the smallest addressable unit rather than bytes. I don't know the hardware or ISA implications, but I thought it could improve space and performance for software in a lot of scenarios. Yes, it would reduce the maximum addressable space by a...