Name: Anonymous 2013-08-28 2:49
If Intel made good processors, they wouldn't need to keep adding all this crap. The number of new instructions is proof that Intel is hitting a wall and they know their ISA is a turd. Look at what these instructions are. Most of these ``advanced bit manipulation'' instructions were in RISCs for over a decade. Kikes slap their name on it and pretend they invented it. Unsigned long multiply without overwriting a source register? They call that an innovation? Pfft. They don't even have bitfield extract/insert when PDP-10 and VAX had them since before the 8086 was invented! Now that was real bit manipulation! Maybe when continuations and functional languages get popular they'll add a ``branch and link'' for making calls without using the stack. They'll advertise their 60's (or was it 50's) CPU instruction and come up with a catchy name for it like ``Advanced Functional Extensions''. They already did that with the NX bit. Nearly every CPU with virtual memory had execute permissions for decades except for Intel. They took a common feature, pretended it's something new, and called it the ``NX bit'' or ``Data Execution Prevention''. Intel is way behind the times, as usual. Intel virtualization is still inferior to the S/370 from 40 years ago. Their AVX is just catching up with where AltiVec was in the 90's Macs. The x86 is and always has been complete shit.
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/06/13/haswell-new-instruction-descriptions-now-available/
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/06/13/haswell-new-instruction-descriptions-now-available/