Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Sep 18 10:29:02 CEST 2010

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Cameron Simpson wrote:

> If there's a (entirely reasonable IMHO) desire to get
> the opcode small, the count should be encoded in a compact be extendable
> form.

I suspect it's more because it was easier to do it that
way than to track down all the places that assume a bytecode
never has more than one 16-bit operand.

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Greg

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