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charcircuit
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>A CPU register is naturally 8 bytes in size
What does naturally even mean here. How is a 64 byte register's (zmm0) size any less natural?
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RealityVoid
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Or a 7 byte register, if you really want to get freaky.
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_3u10
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What about 36 bit registers
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jeffbee
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Nothing in this slop means anything particularly, but this detail is extra-wrong considering the variety of processors that the inventor says he used to create this algorithm.
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What does naturally even mean here. How is a 64 byte register's (zmm0) size any less natural?