[Info-vax] Microsoft: Alpha architecture responsible for poor Windows file compression

Chris xxx.syseng.yyy at gfsys.co.uk
Wed Nov 2 17:52:19 EDT 2016


On 11/02/16 21:42, John Reagan wrote:
> It is shocking that a RISC machine didn't have bit twiddling instructions?
>

Don't know if that is /sarc or not :-), but Alpha had and, or, shift, 
and rotate instructions, which are bit twiddly in my book...

Chris



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