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From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Thu Jun 24 21:44:34 2004

> There are faster divide routines that calculate more than a bit at a time (SRT
> dividers for example)

Probably, as I remember multiplying can be done in a number of odd ways,
some of which can speed up things quite a lot. I remember from the old
100K ECL books the strange "Wallace Tree" adder chip, specifically
designed to add nine bits all at once. This was part of a 64 bit
multiplier.

I always assumed there were equally odd way of doing division.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Thu Jun 24 2004 - 21:44:34 BST