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spec: Investigate IS_WORD chip tradeoff #623

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@RobinJadoul

While having an IS_WORD chip seems to generally be bad for total table area, there are some reasons it may be worthwhile to introduce:

  • It enables conditional range checking
  • It's likely some values will be checked many times, reducing the pressure through row deduplication.

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  2. erik-3milabs commented on Oct 14, 2026

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    Sounds like IS_WH (sort of) deals with this?

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