Assembly Basics (GNU MP 6.2.1)
Description: How to install and use the GNU multiple precision arithmetic library, version 6.2.1.

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#### 15.8.2 Assembly Basics

`mpn_addmul_1` and `mpn_submul_1` are the most important routines for overall GMP performance. All multiplications and divisions come down to repeated calls to these. `mpn_add_n`, `mpn_sub_n`, `mpn_lshift` and `mpn_rshift` are next most important.

On some CPUs assembly versions of the internal functions `mpn_mul_basecase` and `mpn_sqr_basecase` give significant speedups, mainly through avoiding function call overheads. They can also potentially make better use of a wide superscalar processor, as can bigger primitives like `mpn_addmul_2` or `mpn_addmul_4`.

The restrictions on overlaps between sources and destinations (see Low-level Functions) are designed to facilitate a variety of implementations. For example, knowing `mpn_add_n` won’t have partly overlapping sources and destination means reading can be done far ahead of writing on superscalar processors, and loops can be vectorized on a vector processor, depending on the carry handling.