I think the technical answer in this context is:1 x 16-letter
word2 x 8-letter words 4 x 4-letter words8 x 2-letter words16 x 1-letter
words
This assumes single-byte character encoding.
Sorry if this sounds facile; I found myself compelled to post a response and
this is it.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:48 PM -0500, "Ed Jaffe" <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com>
wrote:
On 6/14/2018 6:18 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
> Oops! From PoOps:
> Proceeding from left to right, the elements of the second operand are
> compared with the corresponding elements of the third operand and
> optionally with zero.
> "Corresponding element" is the problem.
> If the second operand is
> and the third operand is
> I believe I'll never get the desired match. TRT seems to remain
> the winner.
No. Remember, these are vector operations. ALL ELEMENTS of the third
operand are compared (in parallel i.e. simultaneously!) with the
elements of the second operand proceeding left to right.
This is not theory. We use this HEAVILY in production software that's
been in the field since September 2016 and it *CRUSHES* TRT!
Just try it rather than thinking you understand it from a
misinterpretation of PoOp.
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