On 1/31/2014 4:33 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
My mental model now is "instructions take almost no time at all; storage references take a very long time."
Exactly. It's the reason there are so many more instructions with immediate operands than there used to be. A good ROT for hand-coded assembler language is to avoid storage operands references whenever you can, even if it results in more total instructions.
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