On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:06:24 +0000, Gainsford, Allen wrote:

>> Sequence could be:
>>     LA    1,Pattern+L'Pattern-1 (see below)
>>     EDMK  Pattern,Value
>>     B     '1110',Positive
>>     BCTR  1,0
>>     MVI   0(1),C'-'
>> Positive DS 0H
>
>Is it worth saving an instruction by replacing the BCTR/MVI with:
>      MVIY  -1(1),C'-'
>...?

Yes, provided that you don't have to run on a processor without the 
Long Displacement facility. Especially since AFAIK there will be an 
Address Generation Interlock.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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