DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.
07:52
It would be better if the instruction and register stuff had URLs for their resources instead of just manifests, so they can lazily be read.
17:33
So do I want to keep my structured InstructionInfo? I believe yes. I can
however instead of InstructionInfoBuilder, just have InstructionInfo
generated from the Manifest instead of requiring the builder perhaps. That
might work out so that everything is initialized at once. However that would
mean that custom instructions can longer be built as they would require a
manifest.
22:09
I would need a good way to represent the instruction image mapping table which the disassembler would use to determine the used instruction. The only major issue would be handling CISC in the future due to potentially very odd layouts for instructions.
22:11
I suppose I can use a small hashtable of the likely set bits. Basically count every bit that is on for the constant and value mask. Then once that is done the instructions will be placed for I suppose a linear search. Not the best but it would cut down for example the original algorithm which searched through every single instruction for a match for the most part.