Advanced Bit Manipulation (ABM)

Advanced Bit Manipulation (ABM) feature consists of two instructions:

  • POPCNT - counts the number of bits set in a word.
  • LZCNT - counts the number of leading zeros in a word.

These instructions were introduced in AMD K10 microarchitecture.

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