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Intel finally plans to add the NSA instruction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Thu Feb 15 09:35:49 2007
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, gnu@toad.com
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:10:12 -0800
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
http://www.intel.com/technology/architecture/new_instructions.htm
ftp://download.intel.com/technology/architecture/new-instructions-paper.pdf
Page 7 of the PDF describes the POPCNT "application-targeted accelerator".
John
PS: They don't give much detail, but they seem to be adding a grep
instruction too (at least fgrep), and a zlib accelerator. Anybody know
more, while it's still early enough to get them to change the most bogus
aspects?
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