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From: brian@ncrcan.UUCP (Brian Onn)
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Subject: Re: NOP
Message-ID: <309@ncrcan.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 17:05:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 17:05:41 1987
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References: <2306@sphinx.uchicago.edu> <4478@amd.AMD.COM>
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Keywords: NOP

In article <4478@amd.AMD.COM> ching@amd.UUCP (Mike Ching) writes:
>.... The NOPs are never executed and don't slow down the
>processor.
>
>mike ching

Sorry, but the NOPS are always executed (how would the processor know that
it is in fact a NOP, if it didn't execute it) and each execution takes 
a finite, albeit minimal amount of execution time.