Patent ID: 11954025
Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A method comprising:
accessing, by circuitry, a mask identifying byte positions within a data word having non-zero values in memory, wherein each bit of the mask has a first value or a second value, the first value indicating that a byte of the data word corresponds to a non-zero byte value, the second value indicating that the byte of the data word corresponds to a zero byte value;
reading, by the circuitry, a packed representation of the data word stored in memory via at least a first slice of a plurality of slices that is configured to access a first side of the data word in the memory, the packed representation comprising non-zero byte values stored starting at an end of the first side of the data word in the memory, and any zero byte values stored in a remainder of the data word; and
providing, by the circuitry from the packed representation, the data word having the non-zero byte values and the zero byte values at the byte positions identified by the mask.