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Subject: Re: Fast 3DNow! BitScan, one more faster

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 23:52:17 12/01/02

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On December 01, 2002 at 21:04:54, Arshad F. Syed wrote:

>I am not much of an expert on this, since I am just starting to get into
>assembly programming. But I was curious about the dword used here, which implies
>to me you are doing 32-bit stuff. Wouldn't it make life simpler to just get an
>Itanium processor and switch to 64-bit code, which would cut down the cycles
>used.

They're $$$ like $$$ expensive $$$ !

But yes, having a 64-bit CPU makes all this kind of stuff easier
and faster. Hopefully we'll get fast and affordable ones soon.

--
GCP



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