movc3 is NOT always faster!

rehmi at umcp-cs.UUCP rehmi at umcp-cs.UUCP
Sat Mar 17 02:22:26 AEST 1984


Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if any version of movc[35]
shovels more than a byte at a time? What I'm thinking is, mightn't it
be faster (on large transfers) to movb up to 7 bytes to quad align
with respect to something, and then do the remainder with movq?

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