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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Edward Jaffe
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 4:12 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: z10 and overlapping/destructive moves
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> According to various presentations I've seen and discussions I've had,
> the hardware is supposed to recognize certain special cases like this
> and optimize their execution. I will say that all of those
presentations
> and discussions took place before the z10 was available.

I would have thought so too, but Strobe seems to indicate otherwise.  Or
maybe the pipeline just gets bollixed up due to other code around it and
there isn't anything I can do to change it.

<*Sigh*> It was so much easier when instruction timings were fixed and
pipelines carried only oil and natural gas.

Thanks for the reply.

Peter


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