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Thomas Womack wrote:
> In article<4gpjj8-unm.ln1@ntp6.tmsw.no>,
> Terje Mathisen<"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no">  wrote:
>>> On 9/6/11 5:12 AM, Piotr Wyderski wrote:
>>>> Thanks for starting the thread, as bit operations are of vital
>>>> importance in my low-level
>>>> algorithms. Apart the operations
>>>> mentioned previously, I would like to have the following instruction:
>>>>
>>>> bit_chunk_check(x, n):
>>>>
>>>> where x is an unsigned integer and n is a positive integer.
>>>> The instruction checks whether x contains a chunk of n consecutive
>>>> set bits and returns an index of the first/last/some such a chunk.
>>>> It is a generalization of bsf/bsr.
>>
>> I agree that such an instruction would be nice, but probably not
>> worthwhile to spend silicon on:
>>
>> For short runs (<  10-12 bits) lookup tables work well
>
> What do you put in the lookup table, assuming x is a 64-bit quantity?

Sorry, I sort of assumed that in a file system the bitmask will be 
_significantly_ larger than a single register!

I.e. it must be loaded from memory.

> I would do
>
> x01 = x&  (x<<1)
> x0123 = x01&  (x01<<2)
> x012 = x01&  (x<<2)
> x0123456 = x0123&  (x012<<4)
> bitscan x0123456
>
> [that's n-or-more but for file-allocation I thought that was what was
> desired; if you want 011111110 then also and in ~(x>>1) and ~(x<<7)]

Good idea.

Terje

-- 
- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

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