i486 base architecture
Nicholas Miell
nmiell at comcast.net
Mon Nov 29 09:02:46 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 09:11 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> for what it's worth... cmov isn't faster on newer (pM/pIV/amd64 level)
> CPUs than the open coded conditional jump anymore....
> so there no longer really is a reason to use cmov-only code.
>
CMOVcc will use less space in the instruction cache than the Jcc/MOV
pair, though.
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Nicholas Miell <nmiell at comcast.net>
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