On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:13:38PM +1100, Darren Reed wrote:

 > The microsparc (as in the Classic & LX) appears to be the first chip with
 > hardware multiply as that's where 'gcc -mv8' of a simple "do lots of
 > multiplies" program outperforms (quite significantly) without the '-mv8'.
 > 
 > So sun4 & sun4c do not have hardware multiply but the rest should.

sparc32 is only one example.  And he said "fast hardware multiply".
Multiply on MIPS CPUs is kind of clunky, too.

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