I guess I'm going to change procedure names to "cycles", unless anyone
disagrees.

Matt.

On Dec 28, 9:20 pm, mattschinkel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, so would you rather have:
>
> stopwatch_read_inst()
>
> or
>
> stopwatch_read_cycles()
>
> Matt.
>
> On Dec 28, 8:48 am, Oliver Seitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I made a instruction counter, although I am not sure if
> > > this is the
> > > correct name. Some instructions take more then 4 OSC cycles
> > > right?
> > > Maybe someone can suggest better naming.
>
> > I can't. These are called "instruction cycles", even though there are 
> > instructions that take more than one instruction cycle. It is in fact an 
> > exceptional case for RISC (i.e. PIC) processors, that most of the 
> > instructions only take one instruction cycle.
>
> > > "asm nop" gives a value of 1
>
> > Great.
>
> > It's mainly branches, i.e. goto, call and return that take 2 or 3 
> > instruction cycles with PIC processors.
>
> > Greets,
> > Kiste
>
>

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