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hayesti
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Well, in the example above I was thinking that EBB-B could modify a variable that is produced in EBB-A and consumed in EBB-C. I wasn’t aware of the branches with arguments. Could you point me to an example of this in the ISA?

If we imagine EBB-A (and predecessors) producing many results and EBB-C (and successors) consuming said results, the branch from EBB-A to EBB-B may have to pass tens (possibly hundreds) of arguments in order to keep The Belt coherent. How can The Mill’s ISA encode more than three or four without running out of bits?