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On most CPUs I know about, the instruction set tries to give you the same illusion of linear execution and memory. There were atrempts to go lower - there were the VLIW, and more recently The Mill CPU. The former failed miserably outside of GPU / DSP land. The latter, to my knowledge, hasn't produced a single physical CPU yet.
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