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Another important criteria: keep instruction sizes within a reasonable range.
CPU with unnecessarily long instructions will consume extra memory for programs in memory.
Long instructions hurt overall CPU performance.
Using encoding with n-bit size opcodes leaves us with 2n different instructions.
With n bits, it seems like you can't do it with any fewer but 2n opcodes.
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