[dralley]

> I find it amusing that the PowerPC, patron saint of ridiculous instructions, has an instruction whose name almost literally proclaims its ridiculousness: rldicl. (It stands for “rotate left doubleword by immediate and clear left”.)

I suspect the POWER team has a good sense of humor. There's also the EIEIO instruction https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2?topic=set-eieio-enforce-...