From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, July 16, 2021 at 3:10:41 AM UTC+10, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
      
   > Although if the operations he's contemplating are   
   > by powers of two, then bit shifts are single-cycle high-throughput   
   > operations (ARMv8 actually includes bit shifts in some operands   
   automatically).   
      
   They are in fact always going to be powers of two, and   
   I could in fact get a right-shift and a left-shift value from   
   the OS instead of divide and multiply values.   
      
   That's a great idea. It does rely on the distance between   
   selectors being a power of 2 though. Is it wise to mandate   
   such a processor?   
      
   Also, it is sounding like this will work in PM32. Will it also   
   work in long mode? I'm not familiar with their selectors   
   or anything else.   
      
   Thanks. Paul.   
      
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