On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:54:55PM -0400, DIAMOND JEFF wrote:
> Just be careful because the 68000 can't do misaligned word copies.
>
> But yeah - with no instruction cache, you are usually dealing with
> higher instruction bandwidth than data bandwidth! (I find myself
> nowalways optimizing on the code side!)
>
> So yes, definately, use move.l when you can -> for 2 bytes of
> instructions you get 8 bytes of data bandwidth. :)
Or Movem.l which moves lotsa bytes for 4 bytes of instructions.
> I'm a graphics developer, and it's really upside down for me now -> I
> find myself saying, how can I draw more graphics as a way to save some
> additional program logic and save instruction bandwidth? :)
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