[FPGAhacker]

What’s the difference between a bit pattern and a bytecode?

[fwsgonzo]

The fast bytecode is reduced to a simple operation that excludes certain knowns. For example if you have an instruction that stores A0 = A1 + 0, then knowing the immediate is zero, this can be reduced from reading a complex bit pattern to a bytecode that moves from one register to another, basically MV dst=A0, src=A1.

[FPGAhacker]

So what would a bit pattern be in this case? I ask because I’m probably being too simple, but from a certain point of view, it’s all bits.