author: ae
I'm designing an ISA and processor.
If anyone here is involved with low-level dev or processor design: what do you think of using non-8-bit bytes?
I'm thinking of making my bytes somewhere between 9 and 12 bits wide, with two bytes long words (between 18 and 24).
It would have a lot of advantages, such as more characters fitting into a byte, a larger address space, and more total information that can be stored in memory, but what do you all think?