Intel finally plans to add the NSA instruction

[John Gilmore]

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?

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