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Inside the Machine
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Inside the Machine

by Jon Stokes
December 2006
Beginner
320 pages
11h 17m
English
No Starch Press
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The Integer Execution Units

Though the Pentium 4’s double-pumped integer execution units got quite a bit of press when Netburst was first announced, you might be surprised to learn that both the G4e and the Pentium 4 embody approaches to enhancing integer performance that are very similar. As you’ll see, this similarity arises from both processors’ application of the computing design dictum: Make the common case fast.

For integer applications, the common case is easy to spot. As I outlined in Chapter 1, integer instructions generally fall into one of two categories:

Simple/fast integer instructions

Instructions like add and sub require very few steps to complete and are therefore easy to implement with little overhead. These simple instructions make ...

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