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? --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]