RE: New assembly language instructions to support OO languages?

"Daniele&Anna" <terdina@comcast.net>
Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:12:22 -0800

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From: "Daniele&Anna" <terdina@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Followup-To: comp.arch
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:12:22 -0800
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 08-12-014 08-12-048 08-12-058
Keywords: architecture
Posted-Date: 11 Dec 2008 04:26:02 EST

New Intel chips have a CRC32 instruction.
Daniele


> -----Original Message-----
> From: compilers-owner@lists.iecc.com [mailto:compilers-
> owner@lists.iecc.com] On Behalf Of Glen Herrmannsfeldt
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [Compilers] New assembly language instructions to support
> OO languages?
>
> 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.

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