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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:13:32AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> ... since an 8bit ffz can be done by lookup table
> and that is fast on all processors

Please still provide the arch hook -- single cycle ffs type
instructions are still faster than any memory access.


r~
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