Re: New assembly language instructions to support OO languages?

Glen Herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:40:47 -0700

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From: Glen Herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.arch
Followup-To: comp.arch
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:40:47 -0700
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
References: 08-12-014 08-12-048
Keywords: architecture, OOP
Posted-Date: 10 Dec 2008 16:51:31 EST

Torben Fgidius Mogensen wrote:
(snip)


> Having a fast hash instruction might help: It would take two numbers
> as arguments and produce a single number that is a hash of the pair.
> It would not need to be cryptographically strong, just good enough for
> hash tables.


One of my favorite non-cryptographic hash functions is CRC32, which
might be useful to do fast for other reasons.


Then again, VAX has a CRC instruction, already.


-- glen


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