From: Ben Houston <bhouston@chat.carleton.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: number of instructions for a multiplication
Date: 8 Jul 1999 23:34:09 GMT
Organization: Carleton University
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Until you specify which processor exactly (i.e. Intel Pentium II,
UltraSPARC 5, etc...) and the size of the operands (i.e. 32/64/80
bits) this question can not be answered.

-ben
http://chat.carleton.ca/~bhouston

Pascal Melanson <pascalm@eve.info.umoncton.ca> wrote in message
news:7jgj6h$dqd$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu...
> Does anybody have any information or links where I could find out how
> the multiplication is proccess in the microprocessor.  I especially
> need to know how many instructions it takes.

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