On 5/18/06, Fargusson.Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the 8086 days it took several clock cycles to do anything. The most annoying to me was the 60 cycle divide instruction. These days they are much faster, some instructions being only one clock.
I still have trouble to measure instruction speed as the number of instructions you can stick in between without slowing down the thing. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
