In <[email protected]>, on
12/28/2015
at 06:15 AM, "Windt, W.K.F. van der (Fred)"
<[email protected]> said:
>And on newer machines (with the general-instructions-extension) you
>can simply do:
> ASI COUNTER,1
>I assume it is faster than the sequence of three instructions but
>have not verified that.
I would be very much surprised if it were not faster. Also, it makes
the code clearer.
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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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