Re: My opinion re LISP

From	Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: My opinion re LISP
Date	2013-04-22 19:30 +0200
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Hugh Aguilar wrote:
> Also, if you really must put NOP instructions inside of functions
> (more than one loop, for example), you don't need to use 5 NOP
> instructions --- there are multi-byte instructions that are effective
> NOP instructions, but which are faster because only one instruction is
> being decoded and executed, rather than several.

Yes, the Intel optimizing manual lists a number of nops and ways to generate 
longer nops without making the decoder slow by using e.g. size prefixes 
(something doing nothing can do that with 16 or 32 bit integers and 
addresses).

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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re: My opinion re LISP "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-16 15:50 +0000
  Re: My opinion re LISP Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-20 21:20 -0700
    Re: My opinion re LISP Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-21 16:46 -0700
      Re: My opinion re LISP Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-04-22 19:30 +0200
        Re: My opinion re LISP Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-22 21:41 -0700
          Re: My opinion re LISP Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-04-23 23:04 +0200
            Re: My opinion re LISP Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-04-24 06:10 +0300
            Re: My opinion re LISP Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-23 22:17 -0700
            Re: My opinion re LISP anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-04-24 11:59 +0000
      Re: My opinion re LISP Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-22 21:49 -0700

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