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From: carsten@cernvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Nop
Message-ID: <539@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 12:51:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: cernvax.539
Posted: Wed Sep 30 12:51:33 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 04:01:30 EDT
Organization: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Keywords: NOP

Even if the NOP is not executed, it has to be loaded into the instruction
register (the CPU's cannot foresee the NOP (yet))! Hence it slows down
the CPU!

Carsten Andersen

carsten@cernvax

.....  hamlet() { if ((be) || (!be)) question(); }