On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 15:53 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> lea is not typically faster than add, but in the case of Atom, it is
> done in an earlier pipeline stage (AGU instead of ALU) which means lea
> is faster if its inputs are already available as address expressions and
> is consumed by address expressions; the goal is to avoid the ALU->AGU
> forwarding latency.
Well, the question is, which is faster:
lea 8(%esp), %esp
addl $8, %esp
Basically, all we want to do is add 8 to the stack pointer. And this is
for the x86_32 version of whatever hardware is in use.
-- Steve
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