Should Data.Bits have a bit scan operation; can the compiler generate a BSR instruction?

[Maciej Marcin Piechotka]

On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 22:29 -0400, Ryan Newton wrote:
> It would be nice to have something equivalent to GCC's __builtin_clz
> intrinsic that could generate a BSR instruction on x86.  Is there any way to
> get GHC to generate such an instruction presently?
> 
> If Data.Bits had bitScan methods they would have straightforward default
> implementations but would also open up the possibility of generating
> efficient code for some instances.
> 
> Cheers,
>   -Ryan
> 

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4102

Regards
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