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 . <EOS>