In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/16/2005
at 01:27 AM, Gerhard Postpischil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Depends on what we're talking about. LA r,0 vs. SLR r,r probably is
>irrelevant these days. LA r,0(s) vs. LA r,0(,s) isn't.
Some processors have a 3-way adder in the I-unit and the performance
is the same whether the base field is 0 or not.
>And atrocities like LH r,=H'5' rather than LA r,5 are still timely.
It gets worse[1]; I've seen stuff like LH r,FIVE with FIVE DC H'5'.
[1] I have an even worse example, but nobody[2] would believe it.
[2] Well, you've seen the code, so I know you would believe it.
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