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The Alpha AXP, part 3: Integer constants
- krylon 9y agoI get a strange feeling of relief from knowing that non-x86 architectures have their share of quirks, too, even though I never get close enough to the bare metal have to deal with such things.
- zlynx 9y agoI don't understand why Microsoft went to so much effort to use two instructions to load a 32 bit value instead of placing it in RAM and loading it. Was the RAM load so much of a delay in the pipeline that this hack was worthwhile?