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Subject: Re: Will the Itanium have a BSF or BSR instruction?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 21:28:01 08/15/00

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On August 15, 2000 at 23:27:46, Larry Griffiths wrote:

>I looked through some literature for the Intel Itanium processor and did not see
>any Bit Scan Forward or Bit Scan reverse instructions.  Does anyone know for
>sure if the Itanium has these instructions or something like them.
>My bitboard move generation would really suck without BSF or BSR.
>
>Larry.


never heart of itanium.

but if it's a serious processor, then it sure will get it,
as soon as they find out that crafty which is in the int64 testset
is getting big speedup out of it.





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