One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody

Re:One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody by Glyptodon on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:10PM (#21828161)

Are there common assembly/CPU native ways of partitioning a 64 bit register to store multiple smaller size values and do work on them? (I haven't written assembly since some MIPSs in college.)

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Re:One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody by billfruit on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:32PM (#21828404)

It is there on x86-64, not sure about other archs.

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Re:One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody by asalahli on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:41PM (#21830235)

Isn't that how SIMD works?

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