A processor-based system, comprising: a processing element comprising: hardware common intermediate lookup table "HCILT" circuitry comprising a register configured to store a table indexing immediate values to wide immediate values; and instruction processing circuitry configured to: fetch one or more instructions associated with a program binary from an instruction memory, the one or more instructions comprising an instruction having an immediate operand; determine that the immediate operand is a reference to a wide immediate operand; and in response to determining that the immediate operand is a reference to a wide immediate operand: determine whether the processing element includes the HCILT; and in response to determining the processing element does not include an HCILT retrieve the wide immediate operand from a common intermediate lookup table "CILT" in the program binary wherein the immediate operand indexes the wide immediate operand in the CILT; and process the instruction having the immediate operand such that the immediate operand is replaced with the wide immediate operand from the CILT. hardware common intermediate lookup table "HCILT" circuitry comprising a register configured to store a table indexing immediate values to wide immediate values; and instruction processing circuitry configured to: fetch one or more instructions associated with a program binary from an instruction memory, the one or more instructions comprising an instruction having an immediate operand; determine that the immediate operand is a reference to a wide immediate operand; and in response to determining that the immediate operand is a reference to a wide immediate operand: determine whether the processing element includes the HCILT; and in response to determining the processing element does not include an HCILT retrieve the wide immediate operand from a common intermediate lookup table "CILT" in the program binary wherein the immediate operand indexes the wide immediate operand in the CILT; and process the instruction having the immediate operand such that the immediate operand is replaced with the wide immediate operand from the CILT. fetch one or more instructions associated with a program binary from an instruction memory, the one or more instructions comprising an instruction having an immediate operand; determine that the immediate operand is a reference to a wide immediate operand; and in response to determining that the immediate operand is a reference to a wide immediate operand: determine whether the processing element includes the HCILT; and in response to determining the processing element does not include an HCILT retrieve the wide immediate operand from a common intermediate lookup table "CILT" in the program binary wherein the immediate operand indexes the wide immediate operand in the CILT; and process the instruction having the immediate operand such that the immediate operand is replaced with the wide immediate operand from the CILT. determine whether the processing element includes the HCILT; and in response to determining the processing element does not include an HCILT retrieve the wide immediate operand from a common intermediate lookup table "CILT" in the program binary wherein the immediate operand indexes the wide immediate operand in the CILT; and process the instruction having the immediate operand such that the immediate operand is replaced with the wide immediate operand from the CILT.