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- From: pettengill@cvg.enet.dec.com ()
- Subject: Re: 64-bit CPU vs 2 x 32-bit CPUs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.055944.15039@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 05:59:44 GMT
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- In article <l7133mINN75s@spim.mips.com>, mash@mips.com (John Mashey) writes:
-
- |>2) A few applications exist where pushing 64-bit integers around
- |>conveniently might have good gains, either due to 64x64->128
- |>multiplies, or just puhsing data 2X faster conveniently.
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- Not all 64-bit integer operations involve numbers. I don't know about
- other architectures, but the Alpha architecture includes an instruction
- or two that allows character compares and related operations to be done
- 8 octets at a time. In particular, CMPBGE does 8 bytewise compares in
- parallel.
-
- I'm sure that there are a number of other places where 64-bit registers
- can be put to good use even when the address space and the integers in
- general only use 32 or maybe even 16 bits. (I've been thinking about
- the design of a PDP-11 emulator, and one option is to put all the general
- registers in two 64 bit registers...)
-
- mulp
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