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From: jdp@polstra.UUCP (John Polstra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Integer Multiply and Divide Times
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Date: 2 Apr 91 20:20:57 GMT
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Could somebody give me an idea of the execution times (in cycles) for
the MULT, MULTU, DIV, and DIVU instructions on the R3000?

The "MIPS Risc Architecture" book by Kane contains such information
about all the other instructions, even the floating point operations,
but it is vague about how long an integer multiply or divide takes.
From that I infer that the execution times for these instructions are
variable.

If anybody out there can tell me the minimum, maximum, and average
execution times for these instructions, I'd appreciate hearing from
you.  Thanks in advance.
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