ZMan,

You not the only one, I had to look up EPSW, hadn't used it before

Scott ford
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'Infinite wisdom through infinite means'


> On Dec 27, 2013, at 11:13 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, true. I guess having grown up worried more about memory than CPU, I'd
> never have chosen that route, but it's clearly equally valid. Or maybe N
> R14,=X'00F00000' and then CLM R14,B'0100',=X'80'... whee, I saved 3 bytes!
> (Also not sure whether two RS instructions are faster than two shifts and a
> CFI. Of course, now we're *really* discussing minutiae...) (Plus, hey, any
> time you get to use a sexy new instruction like CFI, a kitten gets its
> wings. Or something.)
> 
> Anyway, thanks. I wanted to be sure I wasn't missing some other, more
> obvious approach that Everyone Knows (but me)!
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:26 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> You can avoid shifts and save one instruction by ANDing the PSW value
>> with  x'00F00000' and testing the result for equality with
>> x'00800000', but there is not much fat to be squeezed out of what you
>> are doing now.
>> 
>> John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
>> 
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