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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Blitter / Assembly block clear benchmarks
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Date: Tue, 5-May-87 12:27:42 EDT
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:dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
:> for comparison, a 68010 can zero a large block @ 2.04 MBytes/sec
:
:Actually, it's possible to clear memory pretty quickly with a
:loop:
:	movem.l	d1-d7/a1-a6,-(a0)	; 116
: etc.

	Ahhh... I didn't think of that!  Marvelous!  Well worth the register
saving required (At least for large block sizes)...

				-Matt