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
