Author: Ralf Elvsén
Date: 16:16:11 01/19/01
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On January 19, 2001 at 15:45:19, leonid wrote: >On January 15, 2001 at 20:15:17, Ralf Elvsén wrote: > >>I looked ay the instruction set for the Itanium processor. >>As far as I could see there was no instruction to get the first/last >>bit set. >> >>Can someone with insight in processor design describe the >>considerations done by the designers when they decide to >>include or to not include such an instruction? (Assuming they >>are not chess programmers :) >> >>Is it possible to quantify how the "trouble" to include >>it scales with the number of bits? I.e. is it even less likely >>to be found in an 128-bit processor? >> >>Ralf > >Hi! > >I found some talking is going about 64 bits processor. I thought that maybe some >new 64 bits machine came out and I don't know about this. Went to the beginning >of this conversation and I am still not sure. Are there really some new 64 bits >processor or, at least, something dramatically new about next 64 bits CPU? I >have the impression that I wait for it for ever. > >Thanks, >Leonid. Somewhere in the thread there are links to info about the Itanium processor (or just go to www.intel.com and look). I don't think there is anything new about it. Ralf
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