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Subject: Re: a question about speed

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:43:54 01/03/03

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On January 03, 2003 at 17:51:41, Scott Gasch wrote:

>>At his beloved P4 the >> instruction is very very very very slow.
>
>How can a shift operation be very slow?  I would suspect just the opposite --
>blazingly fast to the point that whether you have it in there or not makes no
>difference.
>
>Scott


He doesn't understand the difference between "latency" and "throughput".

The shift has a somewhat long latency (6 clocks max I think).  But other
things go on while that is in the pipe, so it doesn't hurt as much as he
thinks...




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