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Does that mean it was faster at dealing with 16-bit values even if it had 32-bit registers?
by Narishma 6y ago
Does that mean it was faster at dealing with 16-bit values even if it had 32-bit registers?
- flohofwoe 6y agoHmm, looking at cycle count tables it looks like 8- and 16-bit operations are indeed faster than 32-bit operations (e.g. add.w is faster than add.l).
- bcrl 6y agoDeterministic CPUs seem like such a distant part of the past. I loved the days when Motorola and Intel would ship you a full set of detailed manuals about everything from CPUs to MMUs, UARTs and whatever other chips they made. I still have my Motorola manuals sitting on the shelf. Was such a nice instruction set to learn on after the 6502.