Re: NOP instruction

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
15 Dec 1998 18:06:03 +0100


lomarcan@tin.it writes:
>
> BUT, something should be wrong in my manual: XCHG is rated for 3 clock
> ticks on a 486 (Pentium weren't invented yet...) but his 'synonym' NOP
> is rated for only 1 tick....

Perhaps they meant "XCHG with opcode != 0x90" or "XCHG with different
source and destination registers".

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