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Re:Design better databases by mortehu on Thursday April 07, 2016 @05:52PM (#11451004)
> I'd kill for a 128-bit architecture so a UUID compare would be a single instruction

Well, there's PCMPESTRI on Intel.

http://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/PCMPESTRI.html

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Re:Design better databases by jsmthrowaway on Thursday April 07, 2016 @06:30PM (#11451218)
Yeah, I just said this in another comment, but SSE is my weak point; I stopped writing assembly and dealing with this stuff before SSE was even introduced.

That looks basically like what you need, though, yeah. Cool.

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