On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:55:37AM -0700, Bob Plantz wrote: > Do you have other examples? > > BTW, I'm not trying to be argumentative here. I've written an > introductory computer architecture textbook based on x86-64 and am eager > to avoid saying stupid things in my book. :-) The more I can learn, the > better. When I worked at AMD, I recall there were some other examples, but I don't recall whether it was it was in the context of normal SSE2 instructions or in the context of the SSE5 instructions we were working on (and some of the patterns that were being considered but ultimately not used). That part has been swapped out of active memory since I don't have to worry about the details of x86 instruction encoding anymore. > Mea culpa. I should learn how to do this. I thought I would have more > time to contribute when I retired, but I was surprised to learn how many > things there are to do in life besides "working." I don't know how I > ever found enough time to work! :-) -- Michael Meissner, IBM 4 Technology Place Drive, MS 2203A, Westford, MA, 01886, USA meissner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
