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On 9/7/2011 1:43 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:
> Andy \"Krazy\" Glew wrote:
>>
>> I'm collecting as many bit munging operations as I can think of.  Yes,
>> bit reverse is one, and transpose is another.  I just write 'em up as I
>> have time.
>
> Sorry if I missed the explanation, but what
> is the purpose of this?  It seems like you're
> collecting an encyclopedia of computer architecture
> prior art.

I *am* trying to write an encyclopedia of computer architecture.  Or, as 
I have long mentioned on this newsgroup, I am trying to write "The Art 
of Computer Architecture", inspired by Knuth.  I want my wiki/book to be 
a collection, a grab-bag, of computer architecture ideas and techniques.

I get tired of NCGs (New College Grads)

Unfortunately, I am not doing as good a job as Knuth in providing 
references.  I am more interested in regularity, pointing to patterns, 
etc., than in pointing to a possibly irregular history.

I'm not opposed to academic references. I'll provide them when I have 
time, or when they are right at hand.  But I don't have much time to 
work on this.

This lack of references makes my wiki/book not very useful as an 
encyclopedia of prior art looking backwards.  Although I suppose that 
anything, once mentioned on my wiki/book, is prior art going forwards. 
For that matter, so is anything discussed on comp.arch.

I originally tried to some of this on wikipedia, but wikipedia aspires 
to having proper references for everything.  And wikipedia folk deleted 
some of my contributions.  So I decided to start doing it myself. 
Perhaps, one day, comp-arch.net can be an authority referred to by 
wikipedia.

I would like to make comp-arch.net a public or semi-public forum. 
However, my first attempts to do that resulted in excessive wiki spam.
In my copious spare time I want o tweak the wiki software to allow this, 
but I am making progress at that even more slowly.

I think I have a statement of my goals on the wiki somewhere.  If not, I 
should add it.

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