"An instruction cache also eliminates them, leaving only the code size benefits." The performance of movem.l in the MC68000 comes not from multiple load, but f

"An instruction cache also eliminates them, leaving only the code size benefits." The performance of movem.l in the MC68000 comes not from multiple load, but from multiple store, because the main memory access incurred a tremendous, extremely punitive penalty. This has not changed, even decades later, in systems with the fastest memory chips available: any writes to random access memory incur tremendous penalties.