Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture
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Chapter 5, Problem 7RETC
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Advantages of fixed length instructions:
- It is possible to decode several instructions simultaneously, as the decode of the second and subsequent instructions doesn’t depend on the decode of the first.
- Word aligned instructions behave better as branch targets. All the instructions are naturally word-aligned as they are fixed in length which means instruction length == word length.
Disadvantage of fixed length instructions:
- They consume a lot of space and lead to wastage of space...
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