[geeks] YAY!

[Dave McGuire]

On July 21, Joshua D Boyd 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.

  They definitely don't.

    -Dave

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