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Re:The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) by synack on Sunday August 09, 2026 @06:48PM (#49237004)
The Alpha CPUs didn’t implement the div instruction and Linus’ assembly version was faster than DEC’s in some cases.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...

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Re:The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) by stmw on Monday August 10, 2026 @01:04AM (#49239390)
That's nice. (Not uncommon in early RISC, (e.g. PowerPC had some similar limitations for 64 bit ints), and various assembly fun ensued).
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