Can a 12-bit Bit Gate Be a 1-bit Gate Instead?
A short exchange exploring whether a calculation can stop as soon as the answer is known.
Y: BIOS
Y: we hardcode all that level of “shift” keys to the BIOS
Y: also
Y: the AND gate to 1-bit example
Y: so basically whenever we see the first 0
Y: we know it’s not 1
Y: the output is not 1
Y: so instead having to go through the entire 12 bit table
Y: we stop at the first one and conclude
Y: but sometimes the first 0 comes later
Y: so could we at the bios level decide
Y: that with AND operations the row that starts with 0 is shown first
Y: and with OR the other way around
Y: which means we ALWAYS deal with gates at 1-bit level