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xxvii APPENDIX III - INSTRUCTION SPEED AND FLAGS This appendix contains a list of all the 8086 instructions along with their relatives speed and the flags they affect. These speed numbers are from INTEL and are in clock ticks.{1} If you have a 25 mhz clock, then it is doing 25 million ticks per second. If you have a 4.77 mhz clock, then it is doing 4.77 million ticks per second. Instead of calling them ticks, I'll be calling them clocks. In order to understand these numbers, you need a little extra information. In order to do an instruction, ANY microprocessor must: (1) calculate any memory addresses. (2) fetch the two operands (or the single operand if it is an instruction like NOT). (3) process the instruction and (4) put the result in the destination. While (3) will require the same amount of time whether the operands are in memory or in registers, (1), (2) and (4) are all different depending on where the operands are. Some machines allow both operands to be in memory, but the 8086 does not. Therefore, (1) is either NO memory addresses (if everything is in registers) or ONE memory address. Calculating a memory address involves (a) calculating the offset from the beginning of the segment and (b) adding it to the segment starting address. Part (a) is different depending on the addressing mode. In terms of the speed of calculating (a) and (b), the order is: (i) one pointer (ii) named variable (+ constant) (iii) two pointers (iv) one pointer + constant (v) two pointers + constant The reason that (ii) contains both "variable" and "variable + constant" is that the addition (variable + constant) is done by the assembler, not the 8086. By the time the 8086 sees it, it is a single number. The constants in both (iv) and (v) need to be added by the 8086, and this takes extra time. According to INTEL, here is the time required for calculating all possible memory addresses. Note that some pointers are marginally faster than other pointers (this is trivial - don't worry about it). ____________________ 1 All the speed numbers are from "Programmer's Pocket Reference Guide", (c)1980, 1982 Intel Corporation. ______________________ The PC Assembler Tutor - Copyright (C) 1990 Chuck Nelson The PC Assembler Tutor xxviii ______________________ ADDRESSING MODE CLOCKS (EA) (i) [bx], [si], [di], [bp] 5 (ii) variable (+ constant) 6 (iii) [bp+di] or [bx+si] 7 [bp+si] or [bx+di] 8 (iv) ([bx] or [si] or [di] or [bp]) + constant 9 (v) ([bp+di] or [bx+si]) + constant 11 ([bp+si] or [bx+di]) + constant 12 The most complicated memory address takes 2.4 times longer to calculate than the simplest address. These calculation times will be noted by EA (calculate Effective Address). Remember, if both operands are in registers, this calculation does not have to be done. In order for you to see how all of this works, we'll use ADD as an example. Don't start using the table till you understand this example. On the 8086, we normaly have the following possibilities for source and destination: register, register register, memory memory, register register, constant memory, constant In Appendix II, we simply combined them as: reg/mem, reg/mem reg/mem, constant We can't do this here because they all have different times. For ADD they are: ADD CLOCKS register, register 3 register, memory 9 + EA memory, register 16 + EA register, constant 4 memory, constant 17 + EA Notice how much faster using a register is. The EA stands for "calculate Effective Address" and is the number from the list above. If you have: add ax, bx that is "register, register", and it will take 3 clocks to execute. If you have: add [bx+di+9], 17 that is "memory, constant" and will take 17 + EA. What is EA here? According to the above list, [BX+DI+CONSTANT] takes 12 Appendix III - Speeds and Flag Settings xxix _______________________________________ cycles, so 17 + EA is 17 + 12 is 29, so this will take 29 clocks. That's right. The one instruction is almost 10 times slower than the other. If you can move things into some registers, do a number of calculations, and then move them back to memory, you can save a lot of time. Let's do a few examples to make sure that you see all of them: INSTRUCTION TYPE TIME add variable1, bl memory, register 16 + EA = 22 add bl, variable1 register, memory 9 + EA = 15 add [si], di memory, register 16 + EA = 21 add di, [si] register, memory 9 + EA = 14 Examples 1 and 2 are the same except that source and destination have been switched. The same applies to examples 3 and 4. Notice that when the 8086 has to fetch the variable and then put the result back in memory, it is significantly slower than when it just gets the variable from memory and puts the result in a register. INSTRUCTION TYPE TIME add ax, cx register, register 3 add di, 1876 register, constant 4 add variable1, 199 memory, constant 17 + EA = 23 To show you how the different types of EA effect the time, let's do all 3 types of "source, destination" that involve memory. First, "memory, register": INSTRUCTION TIME add [bx], ax 16 + EA = 21 add variable1, ax 16 + EA = 22 add [bp+di], ax 16 + EA = 23 add [bp+si], ax 16 + EA = 24 add [bx+9], ax 16 + EA = 25 add [bp+di+294], ax 16 + EA = 27 add [bx+di+294], ax 16 + EA = 28 Now let's do the same things but go "register, memory": INSTRUCTION TIME add ax, [bx] 9 + EA = 14 add ax, variable1 9 + EA = 15 add ax, [bp+di] 9 + EA = 16 add ax, [bp+si] 9 + EA = 17 add ax, [bx+9] 9 + EA = 18 add ax, [bp+di+294] 9 + EA = 20 add ax, [bx+di+294] 9 + EA = 21 The PC Assembler Tutor xxx ______________________ And finally we have "memory, constant": INSTRUCTION TIME add [bx], 177 17 + EA = 22 add variable1, 177 17 + EA = 23 add [bp+di], 177 17 + EA = 24 add [bp+si], 177 17 + EA = 25 add [bx+9], 177 17 + EA = 26 add [bp+di+294], 177 17 + EA = 28 add [bx+di+294], 177 17 + EA = 29 Is this everything you need to know before looking at the list? Not quite. Most of the 8086 family has a 16 bit data bus. That means that there are 16 wires connecting the processor to memory, and the processor reads 1 word (2 bytes) at a time. These memory reads ALWAYS start at an even location 1472d, 88026d, 198752d, etc. If you are reading one byte, it makes no difference whether it is at an even or odd location. If you are reading a word at an even location, then everything is normal. If you are reading a word at an ODD location, however, the processor must: 1) start reading at the first even location that contains the variable. 2) read the next even location (which contains the last part of the variable). 3) join the parts together. As an example, let's take a word at address 21957 (i.e. 21957- 21958). The processor will: 1) read the high byte from the word at 21956 2) read the low byte from the word at 21958 3) join them together. It now has 21957-21958. The processor can do this, but it takes extra time (4 extra clock ticks), so our speed listing will also contain the following notice: WORDS WHICH ARE AT ODD ADDRESSES NEED 4 EXTRA CLOCKS Thus for: add ax, variable1 (9 + EA = 15) if the address is an even location, the instruction will require 15 clocks. If it is an odd location, the instruction will require 19 clocks (4 extra ticks). It is worth your while to keep words at even locations if at all possible. Appendix III - Speeds and Flag Settings xxxi _______________________________________ INSTRUCTION SPEEDS AND FLAGS REGISTER: One of the arithmetic registers - either word (AX, BX, CX, DX, SI, DI, BP, SP for word operations) or byte (AH, AL, BH, BL, CH, CL, DH or DL for byte operations). AX or AL: AX and AL are considered special on the 8086. Sometimes there is a special AX/AL form of the instruction, (such as for ADD). This form will be shorter. It will only be noted if it is FASTER (such as for MOV) or if it is the only form allowed. It will either say (AX/AL) or (AX only) depending on whether both words and bytes are allowed or only words are allowed. Though both multiplication and division require the use of the (AX/AL) register, the AX/AL is understood, and is not mentioned in the instruction. SEGREG: One of the 4 segment registers - CS, DS, ES or SS. MEMORY: Either a byte or word in memory. It may be addressed with any possible addressing mode, and the extra time needed to calculate the address in memory (EA - calculate Effective Address) is the following: ADDRESSING MODE CLOCKS (EA) (i) [bx], [si], [di], [bp] 5 (ii) variable (+ constant) 6 (iii) [bp+di] or [bx+si] 7 [bp+si] or [bx+di] 8 (iv) ([bx] or [si] or [di] or [bp]) + constant 9 (v) ([bp+di] or [bx+si]) + constant 11 ([bp+si] or [bx+di]) + constant 12 EXTRA TIME: 1) WORDS WHICH ARE AT ODD ADDRESSES NEED 4 EXTRA CLOCKS. 2) A segment override adds 2 clocks to the instruction. FLAGS Following the instruction mnemonic is information in square brackets that indicates how the instruction effects the flags register. There are three possibilities 1) The instruction may alter the value of a flag in a particular way depending on the result. For AND, the sign, zero and parity flags [SZP] will be set according to the result. The PC Assembler Tutor xxxii ______________________ 2) The instruction may set a flag to a specific number (either 1 or 0). For AND, the overflow flag and the carry flag are cleared [(OC=0)]. 3) The instruction may unreliably alter a flag. That means that the instruction might change the flag, but that it gives you no information. This kind of flag cannot be trusted after this operation. For AND, the auxillary flag is unreliable [?A?]. The information will always be displayed in this order. The flags which are reliably set according to the result will be listed first [SZP]. Next, any flags which are either set or cleared will be put inside parentheses followed by an equal sign followed by the value of the flag (all inside of the parentheses) [SZP,(OC=0)]. Finally, any unrelaible flags will be put between question marks [SZP,(OC=0),?A?]. Each part will be separated by commas. If no flags are changed by the instruction, the brackets will have [none] written between them. Each flags will be indicated by a single letter. The letters are: O overflow flag 0 = no overflow, 1 = overflow D direction flag direction of movement for string instructions 0 = upwards, 1 = downwards I interrupt enable 0 = no ints, 1 = ints o.k. T trap flag trap next instruction? 0 = no trap, 1 = trap S sign flag 0 = positive, 1 = negative Z zero flag 0 = non-zero, 1 = zero A auxillary flag carry out of bottom half register? 0 = no, 1 = yes P parity flag 0 = odd, 1 = even C carry flag 0 = no carry, 1 = carry ***************** THE INSTRUCTIONS ********************* INSTRUCTION TIMING AAA [AC,?OSZP?] 4 clocks AAD [SZP,?OAC?] 60 clocks AAM [SZP,?OAC?] 83 clocks AAS [AC,?OSZP?] 4 clocks Appendix III - Speeds and Flag Settings xxxiii _______________________________________ ADC [OSZAPC] see ADD ADD [OSZAPC] register, register 3 register, memory 9 + EA memory, register 16 + EA register, constant 4 memory, constant 17 + EA AND [SZP,(OC=0),?A?] see ADD CALL [none] near call 19 far call 28 near call (reg-ind) 16 {2} near call (mem-ind) 21 + EA far call (mem-ind) 37 + EA CBW [none] 2 clocks CLC [(C=0)] 2 clocks CLD [(D=0)] 2 clocks CLI [(I=0)] 2 clocks CMC [C] 2 clocks CMP [OSZAPC] register, register 3 register, memory 9 + EA memory, register 9 + EA register, constant 4 memory, constant 10 + EA CMPS [OSZAPC] 22 clocks CWD [none] 5 clocks DAA [SZAPC,?O?] 4 clocks DAS [SZAPC,?O?] 4 clocks DEC [OSZAP] word register 2 byte register 3 word/byte memory 15 + EA DIV [?OSZAPC?] byte register 80 - 90 {3} word register 144 - 162 ____________________ 2 These three last ones are indirect calls. They get the address of the subroutine from a register (reg-ind) or from memory (mem-ind). 3 The smaller the numbers, the faster this operation can be accomplished. This applies for signed and unsigned multiplication and division. They all show a range of values rather than a specific value. The PC Assembler Tutor xxxiv ______________________ byte memory (86 - 96) + EA word memory (150 - 168) + EA ESC [none] memory 8 + EA coproc. register 2 This only makes sense if you know about coprocessors. HLT [none] 2 clocks IDIV [none] byte register 101 - 112 word register 165 - 184 byte memory (107 - 118) + EA word memory (171 - 190) + EA IMUL [OC,?SZAP?] byte register 80 - 98 word register 128 - 154 byte memory (86 - 104) + EA word memory (134 - 160) + EA IN [none] (AX/AL), port# 10 (AX/AL), dx 8 INC [OSCAP] word register 2 byte register 3 word/byte memory 15 + EA INT [(IT=0) {4} ] 51 clocks {5} INTO [ {6} ] overflow 54 no overflow 4 IRET [ {7} ] 24 clocks J(condition) [none] This includes all conditional jumps (JAE, JZ, JNO, JLE, JP, etc.) with the exception of JCXZ. jump 16 no jump 4 ____________________ 4 Although this sets the trap flag and interrupt flag to 0, it doesn't do it to YOUR flags, it does it to the flags that the interrupt will see. Your flags are safely stored on the stack and will return unaltered at the end of the interrupt. 5 There is one exception. INT 3, when coded as the single byte trap interrupt, is 52 clocks. 6 If there is overflow, it pushes your flags and sets (IT=0) for the interrupt. If there was no overflow, it does nothing. In either case your own flags will remain unaffected. 7 This puts the copy of your old flags back in the flags register. The flags will be the same as they were when you called the interrupt. Appendix III - Speeds and Flag Settings xxxv _______________________________________ JCXZ [none] jump 18 no jump 6 JMP [none] same segment 15 different segment 15 near (reg-ind) 11 {8} near (mem-ind) 18 + EA far (mem-ind) 24 + EA LAHF [none] 4 clocks LDS [none] 16 + EA LES [none] 16 + EA LEA [none] 2 + EA LOCK [none] 2 clocks LODS [none] 12 clocks LOOP [none] jump 17 no jump 5 LOOPE/LOOPZ [none] jump 18 no jump 6 LOOPNE/LOOPNZ [none] jump 19 no jump 5 MOV [none] register, register 2 register, memory 8 + EA memory, register 9 + EA register, constant 4 memory, constant 10 + EA (AX/AL) <-> memory 10 {9} ____________________ 8 These last three are indirect jumps. The information about where to jump to is coming from a register (reg-ind) or from memory (mem-ind). 9 This is a special instruction which moves a directly addressed variable to or from AX (or AL for bytes). Pointers are not allowed, only the forms: mov ax, variable1 mov variable1, ax This takes 10 clocks instead of 14 or 15 for the other form. Whether this form gets used is up to the assembler, not you. Fortunately, MASM, TurboAssembler and A86 all use this form when appropriate. The PC Assembler Tutor xxxvi ______________________ segreg <-> register 2 {10} segreg, memory 8 + EA memory, segreg 9 + EA MOVS [none] 11 clocks MUL [OC,?SZAP?] byte register 70 - 77 word register 118 - 133 byte memory (76 - 83) + EA word memory (124 - 139) + EA NEG [OSZAPC] {11} register 3 memory 16 + EA NOP [none] 3 clocks NOT [none] register 3 memory 16 + EA OR [SZP,(OC=0),?A?] see ADD OUT [none] (AX/AL), port# 10 (AX/AL), dx 8 POP [none] register 8 segreg 8 memory 17 + EA POPF [ {12} ] 8 clocks PUSH [none] register 11 segreg 10 memory 16 + EA PUSHF [none] 10 clocks RCL [OC] register by 1 bit 2 memory by 1 bit 15 + EA register by # in CL 8 + (4 * #) {13} memory by # in CL 20 + EA + (4 * #) RCR [OC] see RCL ____________________ 10 MOV, PUSH and POP are the only instructions that can alter the segment registers (other than CALLs and JMPs). 11 (NEG number) sets the flags the same as (SUB 0, number). 12 POPF resets the flags register by POPping a word of the stack and using the values stored in that word. 13 Thus, if you rotate right by 3 bits add (4 * 3), if you rotate by 7 bits add (4 * 7), if you rotate by 2 bits add (4 * 2). As you can see, this can cost a lot of time if you are rotating more than 3 or 4 bits. Appendix III - Speeds and Flag Settings xxxvii _______________________________________ REP [none] 2 clocks RET [none] near ret 8 {14} near ret (#) 12 far ret 18 far ret (#) 17 ROL [OC] see RCL ROR [OC] see RCL SAHF [ {15} ] 4 clocks SAL/SHL [OSZPC,?A?] see RCL SAR [OSZPC,?A?] see RCL SBB [OSZAPC] see ADD SCAS [OSZAPC] 15 clocks SEGMENT OVERRIDE [none] 2 clocks SHR [OSZPC,?A?] see RCL STC [(C=1)] 2 clocks STD [(D=1)] 2 clocks STI [(I=1)] 2 clocks STOS [none] 11 clocks SUB [OSZAPC] see ADD TEST [SZP,(OC=0),?A?] register, register 3 register, memory 9 + EA memory, register 9 + EA (AX/AL), constant 4 register, constant 5 memory, constant 11 + EA WAIT [none] 3 clocks minimum, then check every 5 clocks XCHG [none] register, register 4 (AX only), register 3 ____________________ 14 The # here indicates that you pop things off the stack as you would in a Pascal program: ret (18) ret (6) 15 Alters the values of the SZAPC flags according to the values in the AH register. The PC Assembler Tutor xxxviii ______________________ register, memory 17 + EA XLAT [none] 11 clocks XOR [SZP,(OC=0),?A?] see ADD