On 2018-06-16, at 18:53:32, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
> 
> 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."
>  
I suspect it's not that the Vector String instruction itself performs
poorly, but that a pipeline which depends on a pending condition code
may be stalled.  Tough to benchmark.

Now, if the hardware keeps (multiple) speculative condition codes ...

-- gil

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