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

Author: Matt Taylor

Date: 05:15:15 12/03/02

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>With mmx there is some trouble with the 64-bit twos-complement, because there is
>no paddq:
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There is a paddq, just not in MMX. Intel's SSE 2 extensions support a paddq
instruction that operates on the MMX registers -- unfortunately only available
to Pentium 4 right now. (SSE 2 can be detected via bit 26 in CPU feature flags
from edx register after cpuid vector 1.)

-Matt



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