By: Ian Ollmann (iano.delete@this.apple.com), March 19, 2008 8:15 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Doug Siebert (foo@bar.bar) on 3/18/08 wrote:
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>Another thing I was interested to see in Nehalem was the SSE 4.2 support for string
>instructions. Somehow that doesn't surprise me, if for no other reason than the
>Google vs. Microsoft War of the Datacenters.
What surprises me is that they chose to release them under the SSE name. None of these are vector instructions. (Maybe they are long vectors?) Certainly Intel has introduced non-vector ISA additions in SSE before (FISTTP in SSE3) but that was one scalar instruction out of many vector instructions. They seem to have no vehicle other than SSE to introduce new ISA.
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>Another thing I was interested to see in Nehalem was the SSE 4.2 support for string
>instructions. Somehow that doesn't surprise me, if for no other reason than the
>Google vs. Microsoft War of the Datacenters.
What surprises me is that they chose to release them under the SSE name. None of these are vector instructions. (Maybe they are long vectors?) Certainly Intel has introduced non-vector ISA additions in SSE before (FISTTP in SSE3) but that was one scalar instruction out of many vector instructions. They seem to have no vehicle other than SSE to introduce new ISA.
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