Sujet : Re: rep movsb vs. simpler instructions for memcpy/memmove
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 13. Mar 2025, 03:34:11
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:49:47 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 0:03:51 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:44:11 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
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My 66000 has MM memmove as an instruction (4-bytes) always optimal, no
checking required.
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Presumably interruptible and resumable ...
Yep; but also include able to take exceptions.
So you have a VAX-style “first part done” processor status bit? And you
use architectural registers to save/restore the state of an instruction in
progress at the time of an interrupt?