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WalterBright on Oct 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Hidden Power of BCD Instructions

Very interesting. One reasonable benchmark would be uppercasing a string as described in the article vs the usual way.

pbsd on Oct 19, 2014 [–]

As great as BCD instructions may be, they can't possibly compete with vector instructions for that kind of operation.

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