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On Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:18:03 GMT, MitchAlsup
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You are also letting perfection get in the way of good enough.
When I first saw this, I almost laughed, since I never really thought
of any of my Concertina II attempts as even remotely close to
perfection. I was dissatisfied with them because, by my standards,
they weren't even good enough.
But in this later iteration, where I've gained opcode space by giving
up the dream of having 16-bit instructions available even when I don't
have a block header, the basic 32-bit no-header instruction set has
gained memory-to-register operate instructions (with severe addressing restrictions to save opcode space) and, just now, a way of including
48-bit instructions in the code (inefficiently, taking up 64 bits
each).
This is getting to "perfection" in at least one limited sense by my
standards.
John Savard
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