Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set
Hacker News
February 15, 2026
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of work with the ARM64 instruction set, and I
thought it would be fun to try to visualize it. ARM64 encodes every instruction
as a 32-bit integer, so one way to visualize the instruction set is by plotting
the instructions along a space-filling curve, such as a Hilbert curve1, and
coloring them according to their instruction class (i.e., general, advsimd,
float, sve, etc…).
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Originally published on Hacker News on 2/15/2026