No hardware multipliers here: left shifts are handled by much cheaper hardware [1], and are almost part of the basic arithmetic logic unit taught in school -- i

No hardware multipliers here: left shifts are handled by much cheaper hardware [1], and are almost part of the basic arithmetic logic unit taught in school -- it can do addition, subtraction, bitwise operations, shifts by one, and maybe shifts by any number less than their word size. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_shifter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_shifter