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Subject: Re: Two questions: FirstOne() in Crafty and BSF/BSR

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:28:38 08/09/02

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On August 09, 2002 at 13:05:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On August 08, 2002 at 11:47:35, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>
>This is really amazing to hear!
>
>However we must take into account that in specint, inline assembly
>is forbidden AFAIK. k7 is from before crafty area.
>
>We will see what the future brings!
>
>What i don't understand is why BSF is under the 'vector' instructions.
>In my assembly manuals it's under something else.

It's listed as a VectorPath instruction here. Execution latency
from 8-12 cycles.

>What makes this a vector instruction?

Apparently, when translated to the Athlon's native uOPS instruction
set it's more than a certain number of instructions.

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GCP



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