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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: generic versions of find_first_(zero_)bit, convert i386
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On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:22:58 -0700 (PDT), "dean gaudet" <dean@arctic.org>
said:
> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
>
> > The current generic implementation of ffz is O(lg(n)) already
>
> it's O(lg(n)) time... the operations all depend on each other.
>
> the implementation i pointed to is O(lg(n)) code space... and the time
> depends on how parallel the machine is, they're not dependent on each
> other.

Indeed. The worst dependencies are in the sum of all the partial
results in this implementation. And addition is associative, so
partial results can be written as ((a+b)+(c+d))+(e+f). Assuming
perfect parallel execution this would lead to O(ln(ln(n))). Good.

Care to implement ffs and __ffs like this?

Greetings,
Alexander

> -dean
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