Ed,

The PoP says for the Vector String instructions that "For all instructions that 
optionally set the condition code, performance may be degraded if the condition 
code is set."

Have you found that performance can be significantly (or at all) improved by 
not setting the CC in the SIMD instruction and just always extracting the 
seventh byte of operand 1 to see what is the resulting index value in a regular 
GR?

Peter

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On 6/16/2018 12:15 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
> I stand corrected.  Thanks.
>
> This architecture has grown beyond human ken.  Let the compiler do it, and
> hope the compiler author gets it right.

It's still understandable and VERY usable in hand-written code for real 
HLASM programmers.

It just takes the kind of "mettle" we had back in the day when we read 
PoOps cover to cover over and over and over again.

Don't give up! You can do it...

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