On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:32:50 -0400, Craddock, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On z machines there is only one move instruction in hardware (MVC) and >all of the other variants are implemented in milicode. So for a given >amount of data and a particular set of environmental state (alignment, >key etc) they are all going to take just as long as they need to and it >will always be longer than MVC. > Really? Is that documented anywhere public? I'm a little surprised to hear that MVCL, MVN, MVN, MVO and others are implemented in millicode.
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