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|    James Harris to Terje Mathisen    |
|    Re: Fast conversion to a boolean of 0 or    |
|    07 Mar 19 09:08:56    |
      From: james.harris.1@nospicedham.gmail.com              On 07/03/2019 06:35, Terje Mathisen wrote:       > On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 2:47:41 PM UTC-5, James Harris wrote:       >> A small programming challenge if you are interested, just for fun.       >       > What happens if you do:       >       > neg eax       > mov eax,0       > adc eax,eax       >       > This does not use any extra regs, and the NEG and the MOV should still       > run in the same cycle even if they both use EAX as the target. This is       > because the MOV form is known to not depend on the previous value in       > EAX, so it can be started even before the NEG.              Good one!                     --       James Harris              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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