operations just to make the registers scalar or vector, why not
leverage the *existing* Scalar ISA with some sort of "context"
or prefix that augments its behaviour? Make "Scalar instruction"
-synonymous with "Scalar instruction" and through contextual
+synonymous with "Vector Element instruction" and through nothing
+more than contextual
augmentation the Scalar ISA *becomes* the Vector ISA.
Then, by not having to have any Vector instructions at all,
the Instruction Decode