On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:56 PM, George Spelvin <li...@horizon.com> wrote:
> Michal Nazarewicz <m...@google.com> wrote:
>> Didn't some SPARCs have 32x32->32 multiply? I remember reading some
>> rant from a GMP developer about how SPARC is broken that way.
>
> SPARCv9 only has 64x64->64; there's no 128-bit result version.
> That cuts large-integer math speed by a factor of 4 (very
> crude approximation), to the same speed as 32x32->64.
>
> SPARCv8 UMUL puts the high half of the 64-bit result into the Y
> register, and SPARCv7 has a multiply-step instruction (MULScc) which
> does likewise.
Early SPARCs don't even have a multiply instruction.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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