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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Gwern (talk | contribs) at 00:07, 23 June 2010 (An instruction by any other name: +suggestion). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

An instruction by any other name

From the article: "To address this issue, low-overhead compression techniques can be used."

I'm having trouble determining, based on the rest of the article, what makes the output of these compression techniques any different from instructions. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 21:43, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

At a guess, flexibility and dynamicism? One is locked into the current instruction set, but one's compression techniques can change the encoding, make different tradeoffs, and do even more low-level JITing. --Gwern (contribs) 00:07 23 June 2010 (GMT)