GF2P8AFFINEQB

Often used as a way to take the piss out of CISC ISAs, GF2P8AFFINEQB, or the Galois Field Affine Transformation, part of the "Galois Field New Instructions" x86 extension, is actually quite useful.

what is a galois field

TODO

how does GF2P8AFFINEQB work?

<simulator of the matrices>

usage in C++

TODO

usage in Rust

TODO

applications

PS3 Cell floating point emulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ae5Mq2lJE

Go GC

https://go.dev/blog/greenteagc

what can we apply it to?

<search for an application and get a speedup>