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newpavlovyesterday at 10:20 AM1 replyview on HN

>Multiply and divide

And where it actually mattered they did not introduce a separate extension. Integer division is significantly more complex than multiplication, so it may make sense for low-end microcontrollers to implement in hardware only the latter.


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dzaimayesterday at 12:57 PM

There is Zmmul for multiplication-but-not-divide.