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Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by danlark on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:33PM (#36233139)
I agree on the sorting front. Removing one cmov is not likely to improve much.
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Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by orlp on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:45PM (#36233291)
It's not even a cmov. Look at Figure 3 in the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06004-9

They eliminated a register-register mov.

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