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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: new instructions
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 22:01:43 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May23.220143.8515@kithrup.COM>
References: <24216@lanl.gov> <1991May23.192557.7558@kithrup.COM> <24263@lanl.gov>

In article <24263@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>The R6000 would
>be even _faster_ if pop count were a hardware instruction!!

It would?  John, would you care to comment on that?  It seems that MIPS
engineers were derelict in their job, and didn't realize that adding
hardware pop-count would speed up everything else the chip does.

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