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by pjc50 1086 days ago
I think the "shuffle" instructions are a generalization of "s-box", from various cryptographic algorithms?

> They must have some programs in mind that could be run faster with them

Yeah, all new instructions are built with some workload in mind. This may or may not be specified in the architecture manual or you have to reverse-engineer it from the press releases.