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> Now, a little bit about "bitslicing"...
>
> Andy Church writes:
> > Curiosity attack: What _is_ bitslicing, anyway?
> > What makes it faster than "regular" clients?
>
> The basic idea is that if you have a CPU that operates on
> N-bit integers, you can treat it like N processors each
> operating on single bits. So for a 32-bit CPU, you get 32
> "virtual processors", and for a 64-bit CPU, you get 64.
> The parallel machine you're simulating is of the "SIMD"
> (single instruction, multiple data) model; that is, all the
> "processors" execute the same instruction at each step, but
> they operate on different data.
>
So this begs the question: "Do the 32-bit clietnts use
bit-slicing?"
-Josh
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