Author: leonid
Date: 05:12:06 01/20/01
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On January 19, 2001 at 19:16:11, Ralf Elvsén wrote: >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 I went there but was not sure once again if 64 bits Intel's chip really was produced. All talking there was about advantages of new chip and all compilers that are ready for immediate usage. Never found mention about exact date of production and about price of this new chip. Leonid.
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