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		AnotherGoodName on June 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Faster Integer Parsing On Intel unpacked BCD was specifically for working with numbers written in ASCII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_BCD_opcode

vardump on June 26, 2020 [–]

Damn, and I thought I knew all about x86 assembler... never noticed unpacked BCD before.

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