On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Buggs wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2001 03:27, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 01:47 AM 9/24/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > > >http://astray.com/mandlebrot.pasm > > > > > >Leon, you're a sick, sick man. > > > > Okay, I think that means we need to weld in bitmap handling opcodes into > > the interpreter. :) Woohoo.. How many times have we seen code like this: sub log2($) { my $val = shift; my $idx = 0; $idx++ while $val >>=1; return $idx; } I'd love to see a full compliment of bit-code like the 386 had (oh the days). :) That includes get_index_of_left_most_bit (alias log2_i_i), get_index_of_first_[one|zero] (which is useful for searching bitmaps). count_ones. I'd have to go get my old [345]86 assembly book for the rest. This is useful stuff people. :) Heck, on x86 platforms would could use #ifdefs and assembly. :) Tell me this wouldn't be cool? -Michael
