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hnpl

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    Comment #41090515

    I'd love to see the performance data before judging whether it is a good idea. There's no information on the branch prediction penalty of this approach as well. Anyway, I think the…

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    Comment #37218469

    Ah, another key is to change R12 to a number that is not divisible by 4. This is because every instruction is 4 bytes and the most significant bit is always 1. I got around 2 billo…

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    Comment #37095664

    I really like the concept! The key to achieve high scores seems to be writing 0 to PC. The reason is the binary code of new instructions will be "added" to the memory region that i…