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Subject: Preliminary 14% Increase in Speed!

Author: Matt Taylor

Date: 12:10:29 12/23/02

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On December 23, 2002 at 14:53:34, Matt Taylor wrote:

>On December 23, 2002 at 01:42:31, Walter Faxon wrote:
>
>>Hey, Matt.
>>
>>Well, as long as you're adding other test code, below is one more 32-bit
>>routine, adapted from a post by Gerd last June (in fact, made super-pedantic).
>>No table required.
>>
>>-- Walter
>>
>>Code follows:
><snip>
>
>Since the code only finds the LSB for a 32-bit integer, I converted it to an LSB
>64 routine by adding a front stage. My initial estimate is that this routine
>will suffer a little from the table-based rotuine you posted previously.
>
>I've got a bunch of stuff to do today (including picking up my fixed car and
>fixing someone's computer), but the page should be updated with the new routines
>and scores tonight.
>
>-Matt

My hand-optimized integer version is 14% faster over the BEST routine thus far!
I'm going to give VC 7 a shot now. VC 7 usually does a little better than I can
do by hand.

-Matt



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