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That's assuming that you're implementing multiplication in software though, right? Since CPUs have dedicated multipliers, aren't both around a single cycle?
by krackers 6y ago
That's assuming that you're implementing multiplication in software though, right? Since CPUs have dedicated multipliers, aren't both around a single cycle?
- dnautics 6y agoThey are not in general (iirc 64b mult is down to 3 cycles now), but usually in an x86 cpu it can run microinstructions out of order enough so that the multiplication looks like it's finished in one cycle.