On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 08:52, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, the hardware does move a 256 byte area aligned on a 256 bytes
> boundary very efficiently.  And would allow you to load the register
> with an address without storing the last byte.  So a storage pool with
> allocation of multiples of 256 bytes would greatly helped.
>

I thought of that... But then for generality maybe the instruction should
be something like Load and Zero Rightmost
Sufficient-to-address-a-cache-line Bits.

Tony H.

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