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CPUs are fairly orthogonal in terms of capabilities; if the instruction can encode it, the CPU can interpret it. Coprocessors (GPUs, NPUs, etc.) have ISA where the legal encoding space is much larger than a the legal instruction space: the set of valid instructions is not dense in its own encoding space. This smaller legal space is defined by a set of constraints on the set of legal encodings.



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