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|    Re: asm improvements?    |
|    27 Aug 17 08:38:58    |
      From: address@nospicedham.not.available              firr,              > do it really works?              Yes, they do,*              I hope you do realize that although the first group (roughly) translates to       NOPs**, the second group actually changes the contents of the register.              *they might have been re-purposed in later processor versions though.              **while the involved register does not change, there might be some effect on       the rest of the processor.              Regards,       Rudy Wieser                     -- Origional message       firr |
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