By: Andi Kleen (x.delete@this.y.z), March 3, 2013 12:47 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
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> Parity claculations I can kind of see still being used in legacy communication protocols, but ..
Hardware parity is actually useful for other things too, like efficient n-state checks:
http://halobates.de/blog/p/214
Unfortunately x86 only does it for 8 bits, but even that helps.