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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Free Cycles
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 14:46:44 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Philipp Boerker (rawneiha@hydra.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE) wrote:
- : "Jyrki Saarinen" <jsaarinen@kone.fipnet.fi> writes:
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- : >> > Free cycles between two:
- : >>
- : >> > move.l (fast)+,(chip)+ ;18 cylces
- : >> > clr.l (chip)+ ;24(!!!) cycles
- : >>
- : >> AFAIK clr.l reads and then writes -> slower.
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- : >Only on the 68000.
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- : >Isnt it obvious why move.l (fast)+,(chip)+ has less free
- : >cycles; the read from fast takes some -->áfast reads
- : >dont "give" free cycles.
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- : You misunderstood the quotes!
- : 18 c duration for ml (fast)+,(chip)+
- : 24 c duration for clr.l (chip)+ !!!
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- clr.l is slower on 030 and under... dunno about the 040.
- The instruction never mention it was doing a R/W operation,
- even the motorola book timing was wrong (at least upto rev4)
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- I would be interested in seying motorola thinking on 'where' to put
- the effort and transistor on the 680x0 chip.
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- Stephan
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