Binyamin Dissen wrote:
:>In my experience, excessive switching of addressing mode is quite
:>expensive. I suspect it's because the entire pipeline must be flushed.
I didn't see that in the POPs.
AFAIK, the Principles of Operation does not discuss processor pipeline
considerations for any instruction. There is some cursory information
here and there regarding instruction prefetch. That's about it.
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