Check the parity of a DWORD

[daydreamer]

btw how old cpu do you really want to test on,I am certain an emulator could emulate 486dx or whatever lowest cpu is that can perform bswap 

I was more concerned about popcnt ;-)

any practical use of get parity bit in some PROC?

Probably not - since when do we need a reason for testing algos in the Lab?

I ran some benchmark xchg vs mov earlier,from masm32 sdk,so if you exchange xchg does it become little faster?
testing algos in Lab,is kinda similar to test alternative algo,that solves problem using different "untouched" mnemonics/opcodes
already tested an alternative using shufb,so maybe benchmark shufb vs bswap?

[jj2007]

I ran some benchmark xchg vs mov earlier,from masm32 sdk,so if you exchange xchg does it become little faster?
testing algos in Lab,is kinda similar to test alternative algo,that solves problem using different "untouched" mnemonics/opcodes
already tested an alternative using shufb,so maybe benchmark shufb vs bswap?

xchg and bswap do different things, not useful here.

pshufb might be a tick faster, but I'd like to remain on the safe side: this is a recent instruction not supported by older CPUs.

[mikeburr]

does BSWAP lock the bus as XCHG does ???
regards mikeb

[daydreamer]

I ran some benchmark xchg vs mov earlier,from masm32 sdk,so if you exchange xchg does it become little faster?
testing algos in Lab,is kinda similar to test alternative algo,that solves problem using different "untouched" mnemonics/opcodes
already tested an alternative using shufb,so maybe benchmark shufb vs bswap?

xchg and bswap do different things, not useful here.

pshufb might be a tick faster, but I'd like to remain on the safe side: this is a recent instruction not supported by older CPUs.

found the xchg_test.exe timing in masm32 examples,which times xchg vs mov,feel free to ignore this timing:

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727 cycles, (xchg reg,reg)*100
8148 cycles, (xchg reg,mem)*100
7062 cycles, (xchg mem,reg)*100
430 cycles, (exchange reg,reg)*100 using mov
952 cycles, (exchange reg,mem)*100 using mov

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[jj2007]

does BSWAP lock the bus as XCHG does ???

No.