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Which BTQ? There are three flavors. BTQ reg/reg BTQ reg/mem BTQ reg/imm I can imagine that the reg/reg and especially the reg/mem versions would be slow. However the shrq/and versions *with the same operands* would be slow as well. There's even a compiler comment about the reg/mem version saying "this is for disassembly only". But I doubt BTQ reg/imm would be microcoded. -- Ite

Hello all! I'm working on a library with bignum support, and I wanted to try LLVM as an apparently simpler and more portable system to my current design (a Haskell script which spits out mixed C and assembly). Porting the script to use the LLVM bindings instead of the current hack was pretty easy. But I have a few remaining questions: (1) Are bignums exposed to any higher-level