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Subject: Re: Bitscan Updated

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 09:48:32 02/14/03

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On February 14, 2003 at 03:40:53, Matt Taylor wrote:

>AFAIK all suggestions are now incorporated:
>ftp://24.73.126.6/lsb.h
>ftp://24.73.126.6/lsb.c
>
>Somebody (I no longer remember who) asked me to create a version that does not
>use cmovcc so it will run on older chips. I may get around to this, but it is
>not high priority. Staying sane is high priority.
>
>Popcount was also requested; this may make its way into that file very soon -- I
>just need to copy code from the K7 optimization manual.
>
>All versions (inline C and all 3 asm routines) tested in GCC and VC against a
>pure-C routine and seem to work for me.
>
>Once again, suggestions are always welcome. Bug reports are even more welcome.
>
>Happy bit fiddling!
>
>-Matt


if you are referring to the MMX code AMD suggests, I tried implementing it and
found it to be inferior to the standard & 0x5555 etc trick. Of course, maybe I
just did it wrong :) Great job on the first bitscan though. I plan on adding it
to my program pretty soon.

anthony



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