alt Hacker NewsThe encoding being oddball does have some effects on linkers/loaders though I imagine?
Not that linking/loading is a super hot path people generally worry about.
The encoding being oddball does have some effects on linkers/loaders though I imagine?
Not that linking/loading is a super hot path people generally worry about.
It has an effect only in terms of how big an offset you can encode in a relative jump, the _arrangement_ of those bits in the instruction is irrelevant (and already abstracted away in the compiler/linker framework).