[geeks] YAY!

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 11:33:39PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > 
> > Does any other platform have rotates?   To my understanding, SPARCS of
> > any sort don't, and PPC chips don't.  Don't know about anything else
> > though. 
> 
>   Huh?  I will have to dig out my PPC book and check on this.  From a
> dusty memory I seem to recall that one of the reasons PPC machines do
> so well at distributed.net's RC5 stuff is due to rotate instructions.

I thought that didn't do well, but obviously I was wrong about PPC
machines.  I'm still pretty sure that SPARCS don't do rotations.


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Joshua D. Boyd