One intrinsic was needed to help get the very best
performance out of a future GC; as long as that one was
being added, I also added Bswap since that is sometimes
a handy thing to have. I had intended to fill out the
bit-scan intrinsic family, but the mismatch between the
"scan forward" instruction and "count leading zeroes"
was large enough to cause me to leave it out -- it poses
a dilemma that I'd rather dodge right now.
These intrinsics are not exposed for general use.
That's a separate issue requiring an API proposal change
( https://github.com/golang/proposal )
All intrinsics are tested, both that they are substituted
on the appropriate architecture, and that they produce the
expected result.
Change-Id: I5848037cfd97de4f75bdc33bdd89bba00af4a8ee
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/20564
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
