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In article <2302@spim.mips.COM> zalman@mips.com (Zalman Stern) writes:

| Rlimi does left and right logical immediate shifts. (I think it corresponds
| to what most shifter hardware looks like internally as well.) I hacked some
| assembly for this machine and was amazed at how often rlimi came in handy.
| (This instruction is so cool I'd almost advocate adding it to our
| instruction set. But Earl would probably hit me over the head with an R4000
| architecture manual and make me write "Thou shalt pay attention to dynamic
| instruction frequency statistics!" 100 times on my whiteboard.)

I wouldn't be surprised if a workstation running X, actually could do
a fair bit of these instructions in the server bitblt's.  Of course if
you don't have a direct display, but use an X terminal, you wouldn't
see these.  However, it's probably harder to measure dynamic
instruction frequency in such a case.....

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