[Issue 4046] [CTFE] std.intrinsic

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Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> 2011-09-22 10:42:25 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm not sure why the btXX functions (bt, btc, btr, etc) exist at all.
> Although they are a single instruction, they are MUCH slower than the
> equivalent code using shifts or AND/OR/XOR.
> For example, on Core i7 (Sandy Bridge), with a memory operand, they take 6
> clock cycles!!!! You can execute 24 integer instructions in that time. On AMD
> K10, they're even slower. On Pentium 4 they have a latency of EIGHTEEN clock
> cycles. They're even slow on VIA processors as well -- they're not good
> anywhere.

Damn, and I used them at heart of important loops in FReD ....
Thanks, I'm getting rid of them ASAP %)
This should be probably mentioned somewhere, and then there are these
problematic bsr/bsf you mentioned before.

> 
> I think they should be completely removed. There's a case for the intrinsics
> mentioned in bug 5703, but I think this should be a WONTFIX. To support them
> would just encourage slow, non-portable code.

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