From: "Brent Longborough" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 4:05 PM
First, the answer is no. It is perfectly valid, IMO, to expect your readers to "know" precisely how an instruction works. That said, given two possible code constructs which are *reasonably close* in efficiency, I would prefer that which uses "less complicated" instructions, as it means the reader can press on without having to look things up (in an xref table or in POP). Now, multiply (M, MR, etc), unfortunately, don't have efficient, simpler alternatives. So I tend to use the GF variants of multiply, as they don't require multiple, implicitly-defined registers.
Well, you can always use MH, but it won't overflow. And D, DR ?
And ED[MK] don't have good alternatives either (though their programmer UX is apalling).
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