Add a new set of CPU instructions like “rep macb”
...and it's been long enough now, that I can say there was an effort to implement this on standard x86 memory controllers and have the existing string instructions do so, back in the days of SDR SDRAM, but the tradeoffs weren't (yet) in favour.
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Add a new set of CPU instructions like “rep macb”
...and it's been long enough now, that I can say there was an effort to implement this on standard x86 memory controllers and have the existing string instructions do so, back in the days of SDR SDRAM, but the tradeoffs weren't (yet) in favour.