You go for a job as a computer architecture designer. At your interview, you tell the panel that you have some real neat ideas for some cool processors. For example, you have an instruction that can set an individual bit in memory. The format of your instruction is
BITSET r0,r1,[(r2),r3,r4 LSR r5, #n]
This instruction sets the bit in r0 located r1 bits from the word whose address is given by the contents of the
memory location pointed at by r2, plus the contents of register r3, plus the contents of register r4 shifted left by
register r5, plus the constant n. You don’t get the job. Why?
What will be an ideal response?
You have invented an all singing all dancing bit field instruction that uses a very sophisticated addressing mode (involving memory indirect addressing that we discuss in the next chapter). The problem is that your instruction is very complicated, has a lot of operands (it would not fit into a 32?bit word) and would probably be used very, very infrequently. Consequently, it would not be economical to create and would almost certainly slow down execution. On the other hand, it might help you get a job as a professor.
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