From: rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 7:32:43 AM UTC-5, Bart wrote:   
   > On 08/03/2019 23:47, bart4858@nospicedham.gmail.com wrote:> On Friday, 8   
   > March 2019 12:52:40 UTC, Bart  wrote:   
   >  > The loop time is for an empty loop....   
   >   
   > Rick said (it might have been in an email), that an empty loop sometimes   
   > takes longer. When I tried it today on my main PC, that is what I found.   
   >   
   > (Not entirely surprisingly; I find that all the time with x86 and x64:   
   > you make code simpler and shorter by removing instructions, and it   
   > becomes slower!)   
      
   Driving home last night I had a thought about that.  I think   
   since I'm in un-optimized compiler mode, it doesn't align loop   
   targets, meaning the results may be skewed.   
      
   I'll rewrite the tests in assembly and link in a properly aligned   
   series of tests.   
      
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   Rick C. Hodgin   
      
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