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Intel ARCHITECTURE IA-32 User Manual

Intel ARCHITECTURE IA-32
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Tables
Table 1-1 Pentium 4 and Intel Xeon Processor Cache Parameters .................. 1-20
Table 1-3 Cache Parameters of Pentium M, Intel
®
Core™ Solo and
Intel
®
Core™ Duo Processors .......................................................... 1-30
Table 1-2 Trigger Threshold and CPUID Signatures for IA-32
Processor Families ............................................................................ 1-30
Table 1-4 Family And Model Designations of Microarchitectures...................... 1-42
Table 1-5 Characteristics of Load and Store Operations
in Intel Core Duo Processors ............................................................ 1-43
Table 2-1 Coding Pitfalls Affecting Performance ................................................. 2-2
Table 2-2 Avoiding Partial Flag Register Stall ................................................... 2-76
Table 2-3 Avoiding Partial Register Stall When Packing Byte Values ...............2-78
Table 2-4 Avoiding False LCP Delays with 0xF7 Group Instructions ................ 2-81
Table 2-5 Using REP STOSD with Arbitrary Count Size and
4-Byte-Aligned Destination................................................................ 2-85
Table 5-1 SoA Form of Representing Vertices Data ........................................... 5-7
Table 6-1 Software Prefetching Considerations into Strip-mining Code............6-39
Table 6-2 Relative Performance of Memory Copy Routines ............................. 6-52
Table 6-3 Deterministic Cache Parameters Leaf............................................... 6-54
Table 7-1 Properties of Synchronization Objects ..............................................7-21
Table B-1 Pentium 4 Processor Performance Metrics .......................................B-18
Table B-2 Metrics That Utilize Replay Tagging Mechanism...............................B-47
Table B-3 Table 3 Metrics That Utilize the Front-end Tagging Mechanism........B-48
Table B-4 Metrics That Utilize the Execution Tagging Mechanism ....................B-49
Table B-5 New Metrics for Pentium 4 Processor (Family 15, Model 3)..............B-50
Table B-6 Metrics That Support Qualification by Logical Processor and
Parallel Counting ...............................................................................B-51
Table B-7 Metrics That Are Independent of Logical Processors........................B-55
Table C-1 Streaming SIMD Extension 3 SIMD Floating-point Instructions ......... C-6
Table C-2 Streaming SIMD Extension 2 128-bit Integer Instructions.................. C-7
Table C-3 Streaming SIMD Extension 2 Double-precision Floating-point
Instructions ......................................................................................... C-9
Table C-4 Streaming SIMD Extension Single-precision Floating-point
Instructions ....................................................................................... C-12
Table C-6 MMX Technology 64-bit Instructions ................................................ C-14

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Intel ARCHITECTURE IA-32 Specifications

General IconGeneral
Instruction Setx86
Instruction Set TypeCISC
Memory SegmentationSupported
Operating ModesReal mode, Protected mode, Virtual 8086 mode
Max Physical Address Size36 bits (with PAE)
Max Virtual Address Size32 bits
ArchitectureIA-32 (Intel Architecture 32-bit)
Addressable Memory4 GB (with Physical Address Extension up to 64 GB)
Floating Point Registers8 x 80-bit
MMX Registers8 x 64-bit
SSE Registers8 x 128-bit
RegistersGeneral-purpose registers (EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX, ESI, EDI, ESP, EBP), Segment registers (CS, DS, SS, ES, FS, GS), Instruction pointer (EIP), Flags register (EFLAGS)
Floating Point UnitYes (x87)

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