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Subject: Re: There is huge potential to improve further

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 22:40:45 07/09/03

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On July 09, 2003 at 13:57:06, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>I don't know the itanium2 instructions set - may be there is some "leading" zero
>count or some fast int to float conversion, where you can pass a single isolated
>bit as int and get the position from the float exponent.
>Anyway there is still Walter Faxon's magic c-routine.

Eugene Nalimov posted here in the past a routine that will run branchless in 8-9
cycles on an Itanium.



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