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From: "Paul A. Clayton" <paaronclayton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Continuations
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On 7/18/24 12:40 PM, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
[snip]
> Over the 20 cycles the multiplier is doing Goldschmidt iterations, 
> there
> are only 3 slots where a different instruction could sneak through.

Since initial iterations could (I think) use reduced precision, it
might also be possible to use part of the multiplier for a
different lower precision multiplication.

(ISTR, an AMD implementation used different precision for
different steps.)