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> The thing to understand is that shift is fundamentally a simpler operation than multipl ... well... If you have hardware multiply that is guaranteed to take
by SlowRobotAhead 6y ago
> The thing to understand is that shift is fundamentally a simpler operation than multipl
... well... If you have hardware multiply that is guaranteed to take one click cycle and a shift that will take the same... does fundamental complexity of how that happens even matter?
- rasz 6y agodepends, shift might be fusable. First ARM chips had free shifts taking zero cycles http://www.csbio.unc.edu/mcmillan/Comp411F18/Lecture07.pdf http://www.csbio.unc.edu/mcmillan/Comp411F18/Lecture07.pdf