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0 pointsdelfinom6y ago0 comments

>Remember all those strange bit positions are irrelevant in hardware.

What, they are absolutely relevant in hardware and selected to optimize the resulting generated hardware.

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I was super unclear there. The strange routing is largely irrelevant. In software it's a pain to do all that reshuffling, in hardware it's just wires from here to there.

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