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Thanks for your answers! Another thought I had that I'd like to share: if we can have data in the instruction stream (with MSB=0 to indicate that it's not the beginning of an instruction). Then encoding instructions with an immediate operand is just a special case of an instruction with a memory acc...

Hi, I've just learned about ForwardCom and I have a question about instruction templates. As you're designing an ISA from scratch, have you considered using a self-synchronizing encoding similar to UTF-8? If not, why not? E.g. if we use the count of leading 1s to encode the number of words encoding ...