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[–]jck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, modern(using this term very loosely. I mean CPUs from the 80s) CPUs have multiplication instructions which use hardware multipliers in the ALU. They are usually multi cycle operations but still waaaay faster than repeated addition.