Re:Reverse-engineering the division microcode in the Intel 8...
by jiggawatts on Saturday April 08, 2023 @08:42PM
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For comparison, a modern CPU architecture such as the Zen 4 can perform a 64-bit integer division in 10-18 clock cycles, which means it is processing 3.5 to 6.5 bits per clock.
Ref: https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf