{OT} Youtube Video: newCTFE: Starting to write the x86 JIT

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 24 April 2017 at 11:29:01 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
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> What are scaled loads?

x86 has addressing modes which allow you to multiply an index by 
a certain set of scalars and add it as on offset to the pointer 
you want to load.
Thereby making memory access patterns more transparent to the 
caching and prefetch systems.
As well as reducing the overall code-size.