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Pop Goes the Population Count?

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60 points hasheddan | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 14:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.428s | source
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bombcar ◴[11 Dec 25 17:36 UTC] No.46234425[source]▶
Isn't this the instruction that apparently the NSA asked for?
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1. kens ◴[11 Dec 25 18:58 UTC] No.46235536[source]▶
I did a lot of research on this [1]. I got confirmation from Robert Garner (architect of the SPARC processor) that the NSA did indeed ask for the population count instruction. His story of meeting with the NSA is pretty amusing [2].

[1] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/8666/4158

[2] https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...