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addressing-modes
- Aug 26, 2025 Folding Address Computation into Memory Operands How base, index, scale, and displacement get absorbed into load and store encodings, which arithmetic survives the fold, and why the selector must sometimes refuse. compilers
- Mar 20, 2025 Zero Page Addressing and the Economics of Eight-Bit Instructions Placing the first 256 bytes of memory at the centre of the instruction set traded address range for instruction length, and shaped how eight-bit code was written. computing history
- Sep 12, 2024 Addressing Modes and How an Effective Address Is Computed How base, index, scale and displacement fields combine into an address, why some ISAs fold memory operands into arithmetic, and what each mode costs in the datapath. computer architecture
- Apr 7, 2023 Instruction Selection as Tree Tiling How a back end maps an intermediate representation onto machine instructions by covering expression trees with patterns, and why legality and cost are separate questions. compilers