On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 05:46:34PM -0500, Ron wrote:
> For an even more extreme speedup, don't most modern CPUs have an asm
> instruction that counts the bits (un)set (AKA "population counting")
> in various size entities (4b, 8b, 16b, 32b, 64b, and 128b for 64b
> CPUs with SWAR instructions)?
None in the x86 series that I'm aware of, at least.
You have instructions for finding the highest set bit, though.
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