Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!PLS
From: PLS@cup.portal.com (Paul L Schauble)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC v. CISC --more misconceptions
Message-ID: <10774@cup.portal.com>
Date: 2 Nov 88 04:56:17 GMT
References: <156@gloom.UUCP> <18931@apple.Apple.COM> <40@sopwith.UUCP> <998
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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> Find the distance to the next 1 in a bit stream FAST

Scan for the first non-zero word. Load word and do a floating normalize. Look
at the exponent. 

  ++PLS