Yep. I thought this would be a huge issue when using this, but first, it's really necessary for the instruction set, and second, a lot of hardware uses 18-bit, including FPGA's (often packed w/ 18x18 multipliers and 18bit SRAMs, in order to support 8b/10b SERDES) and 72-bit DDR3.
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Yep. I thought this would be a huge issue when using this, but first, it's really necessary for the instruction set, and second, a lot of hardware uses 18-bit, including FPGA's (often packed w/ 18x18 multipliers and 18bit SRAMs, in order to support 8b/10b SERDES) and 72-bit DDR3.