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Subject: Re: Opteron Instruction Set

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 08:45:20 02/03/04

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On February 03, 2004 at 03:13:29, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>On February 03, 2004 at 01:03:29, Jay Urbanski wrote:
>
>>On February 02, 2004 at 22:41:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On February 02, 2004 at 20:06:29, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>>
>>>>Does the Opteron have firstBit, lastBit and popCount instructions? Or at least
>>>>something that makes calculating them easier than on x86-32?
>>>>
>>>>/David
>>>
>>>
>>>Has the same BSF/BSR instructions, but no popcnt that I have found.  Note
>>>that BSF/BSR work on 64 bit values if you want.  I have inline asm to do
>>>all three for gcc if you are interested.
>>
>>I understand there is a popcount instruction.  I also understand it's
>>undocumented.
>
>Do you have any opcode or further hints?
>That would be great - a 4 cycle vector path popcount ;-)

And deadslow.



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