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by HeyChinaski 4625 days ago
In defence of the technique, the command table is quite succinct and arguably more readable at a glance than if there were a bunch of constants |ed together. I have no idea whether this was the original motivation though.
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Yes. It is certainly more pithy.

ACTUALLY! It reminds me of a technique Bisqwit used when he made his emulator. He used strings to define the behavior of certain instructions, the strings were actually interpreted at compile time. Though I think this is a C++ specific trick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71lli8MS8s

he brings in the instruction table at 1:30