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		cpr on Sept 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz And how do you store the carry bits (this machine only has 2 bits of state)? Or do you encode carries by pure branching?

jonsen on Sept 10, 2016 [–]

It would be tedious to do it all by pure branching. You would need a 64-way branch for c2. If you can't spare one separate RAM bit for a carry you could store the carries in the c2 location and start the computation of c2 by if (c2==...

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