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charcircuittoday at 8:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

>A CPU register is naturally 8 bytes in size

What does naturally even mean here. How is a 64 byte register's (zmm0) size any less natural?


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RealityVoidtoday at 8:20 PM

Or a 7 byte register, if you really want to get freaky.

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jeffbeetoday at 8:28 PM

Nothing in this slop means anything particularly, but this detail is extra-wrong considering the variety of processors that the inventor says he used to create this algorithm.