In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/15/2007
at 06:36 PM, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The TR instruction will always be slower than equivalent instructions
>for strings shorter than 'n' bytes because of the startup costs
>associated with invoking a millicode instruction
No. You're assuming that the implementation will always be millicode.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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