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Where "orders of magnitude" here means "four times"? (and one suspects the additional complexity will not do good things to your instruction cache) ETA: wait,
by GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
Where "orders of magnitude" here means "four times"? (and one suspects the additional complexity will not do good things to your instruction cache)
ETA: wait, hold on. To compare two pairs of bits, you can do an xor, mask out the bits you care about, compare that against 0, and jump based on the flag. To compare two bytes, you can do an xor, mask out the bits you care about if you're packing them into something larger, compare that against 0, and jump based on the flag. Totally not seeing the advantage here.