While waiting for Fedora 14, a question for the engineering types re: searching and finding

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 21:36 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> But I've never heard of a processor that has a "search" instruction
>> implemented in hardware. :-)

CERTAINLY THE ibm 360/370 SERIES DID.


D

>
> Depends what you mean by hardware. I'm pretty sure some special-purpose
> machines (Lisp and Prolog machines come to mind) had string searching in
> microcode. Some VLSI designs for string-searching hardware come up if
> you do a Google search (!) but I doubt if any have actually been
> exploited commercially.
>
> poc
>
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