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Re: Branchless conditionals (Was: More on Linpack pivoting)

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From: Herman Rubin
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 12:44
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This is the old conditional skip, unused in most "modern" architectures.

This works well on sequential machines, but has it been implemented efficiently
on the faster non-sequential ones?
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Branchless conditionals (Was: More on Linpack pivoting)
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Date: 25 Jun 91 12:44:10 GMT
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