RE: Odd/Even packed numbers.

NYBBLE ? not in my dictionary (Oxford English, Concise Edition). It doesn't
even list NYBBLE as an alternative American spelling.  But perhaps this is
the US spelling :-)

Jeff Bull

-----Original Message-----
From: PaulMmn [mailto:PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: 28 November 2002 17:14
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Odd/Even packed numbers.


Uh, I believe that's spelled  N-Y-BBLE.   (;

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com




>SEMI-BYTE !!! Please sir, use the correct term .... NIBBLE :-)
>
>Jeff Bull
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Giuseppe Costagliola [mailto:gcosta@sidin.it]
>Sent: 28 November 2002 16:57
>To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.
>
>
>Leif,
>apart from rough testing . . . I don't have rights to use sst and not even
>enough knowledge about RISC instructions, but maybe it could be interesting
>to compare how both versions are compiled to see if there are some machine
>instruction added to fix the missing semi-byte.
>
>-- Giuseppe.
>>
>>  It was indeed true on the CISC machines. As for RISC, it is trivial
>>  to make a little test program that adds up a million or a billion packed
>>  numbers (all with the same value, say 123) and see how long it takes.
>>  Try it and give something back to the community by reporting the result
>  > here.




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