It's so gay that zen1 and zen2 have giga slow microcoded implementations for the pdep and pext instructions

So slow (~140 cycles latency) that manually implementing their behavior via handfuls of other instructions is actually faster

On intel they take literally 1 cycle...

holdup now im curious.

```wat

TEMP := SRC1;

MASK := SRC2;

DEST := 0 ;

m := 0, k := 0;

DO WHILE m < OperandSize

· · IF MASK[ m] = 1 THEN

· · · · DEST[ k] := TEMP[ m];

· · · · k := k+ 1;

· · FI

· · m := m+ 1;

OD

```

(^pseudo from https://felixcloutier.com/x86/pext/)

say you write a branchless version of that, just straight up pasting the same block with a rept to unroll the loop. and to keep it simple lets say we're not actually benchmarking, just going by the ops/latency found in uncle agner's tables (https://agner.org/optimize/...).

just how much faster can it be? its a stupid problem and a very good one.