Intel introduces new Advanced Performance Extension. (www.intel.com)

submitted 1 year ago by muxelplexer@programming.dev to c/osdev@programming.dev

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Intel seems to have gotten "inspired" by ARM and is going to double the GP registers to 32 and implement a push2 and pop2 instructions that move two register values in one operation.

Seems interesting enough.

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[-] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It'll be a long while before we see any actual silicon that implements APX though.

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