XPost: comp.arch   
   From: jasen@xnet.co.nz   
      
   On 2008-12-05, nmm1@cam.ac.uk  wrote:   
      
   > The reason that it was always nonsense is that instructions have NEVER   
   > taken about the same amount of time,   
      
   incorrect, that may be true on your platfome of choice,   
   but on small risc microcontrollers like atmel AVR almost every op-code   
   takes a single cycle. (of-course ther'es no FP and not much RAM, but   
   it's still a processor)   
      
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