I must apologise if I periodically raise the same
subjects as before, such as the graphics processor
and instruction encodings, etc, but the situation
is that I have a number of very deep seated interests
other than just low-level computing, particularly
amateur radio, horology, model railways and bellringing,
and I tend to be single mindedly being utterly fascinated by
only ever one at any time with the result that it can be many
weeks or months before returning to any one interest.

However, it remains that my computing interest, resulting
from my first real job 45 years ago, is to produce an
interactive programming language (the interactivity
of BASIC or FORTH) but that runs at the speed of compiled
code and yet is fully reconstructable as the original source.

For example, due to operator precedence, parentheses might
prove to be unnecessary, but you'd be justifiably miffed
if they disappeared from the source code, as source code
has human understandabilty considerations, and so
it becomes necessary to
insert a special form of NOP in the compiled code to
represent the parentheses; only one NOP for each pair.

So, the reason for wanting the instruction encoding of the A53
(now discovered in excelsis) is to seek ambiguous forms of the
same instruction to let me effectively insert such NOPs but
without unnecessarily slowing down a program.

This interest might well be obsolete nowadays, now that
there is no shortage of either RAM or disk files to store
both source and object, but old habits die hard!

I also have no doubt that these ideas of mine will have been
well resolved by countless others over the decades and that
I will be re-inventing the wheel but calling it fire.

I previously worked on this project prior to retirement
32 years ago with the CRAP and SOAS lanuages on the x86
processors but found
that intensive programming in the evenings after
intensive programming during the working hours was just
too tiring.

CRAP, Create Rapidly Application Programs, was a tokenised
interpreter, just to get the ideas down (just 6 weeks
of eveinings and weekends to get an interpreter that could
list itself) and SOAS, Shit Off A Shovel, was the faster
version where the source code tokens were the compiled
code itself.

Sorry, apologies again, waffling on!

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