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In message <3D888259.4050201@toetsch.at>
Leopold Toetsch <lt@toetsch.at> wrote:
> Tom Hughes wrote:
>
> > You will still get horrible op explosion for a three argument op as
> > even if you assume that all PMCs are keyed, there are four key types
> > which, with three operands, gives you 64 ops in total.
>
> No. We would have
> set_p_kc
> set_p_ki
> set_p_kic ... special shortcut set/get, only one key per op allowed
> and
> op_p_k_p_k ... unary keyed, all k are KEYs
> op_p_k_p_k_p_k ... 3 keys bin op, all k are KEYs
So now the assembler has to know that set is special and can have all
four sorts of keys while the other ops only support dynamic keys?
> All 64 combinations would be a horror.
Indeed.
> But I really vote for a predereferencing like solution.
I didn't really understand that part of your previous message, but I
don't see what relevance that has to how the assembler decides on the
op name to use (and hence how to encode the arguments).
Tom
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