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Subject: Re: Opteron Instruction Set

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:15:23 02/03/04

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On February 03, 2004 at 11:45:20, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On February 03, 2004 at 03:13:29, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>
>>On February 03, 2004 at 01:03:29, Jay Urbanski wrote:
>>
>>>On February 02, 2004 at 22:41:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 02, 2004 at 20:06:29, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Does the Opteron have firstBit, lastBit and popCount instructions? Or at least
>>>>>something that makes calculating them easier than on x86-32?
>>>>>
>>>>>/David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Has the same BSF/BSR instructions, but no popcnt that I have found.  Note
>>>>that BSF/BSR work on 64 bit values if you want.  I have inline asm to do
>>>>all three for gcc if you are interested.
>>>
>>>I understand there is a popcount instruction.  I also understand it's
>>>undocumented.
>>
>>Do you have any opcode or further hints?
>>That would be great - a 4 cycle vector path popcount ;-)
>
>And deadslow.


Certainly not slower than what we have to do at present...



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