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Ramon van Handel wrote:
>Isn't nop often used in branching?Huh ? Nop is the "No Operation" instruction. x86 isn't RISC!!!
>just iding until a hardware clock runs out we don't
>want it to just be sitting there eating up cpu cycles
>that could be used elsewhere--so why not trap "nop"
>and thus allow the clock cycles to be put to good use
>while redirecting any wait states into a virtual
>hardware timer inside of the monitor?You're confused with HLT, here.
However, using NOP as a proof-as-concept test has my approval, Kevin :-P
-- Ramon
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