Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: standard extensions Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 14:58:36 GMT References: <1991Feb25.135057.23667@linus.mitre.org> <1991Feb25.201406.18643@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <1991Feb26.171338.8362@linus.mitre.org> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 Just a random observation: In article <1991Feb26.171338.8362@linus.mitre.org> bs@linus.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes: > Furthermore, there ARE codes which can show much more than a 10% gain > by having [div/rem] instructions. Most are number-theoretic or cryptographic > or group-theoretic in nature. I would think the most common one would be formatting integers into ASCII strings. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"