[A83] Re: Signed division by a power of two.


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[A83] Re: Signed division by a power of two.



On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:43:43 -0500, Matthew Marshall wrote:

> >  - relative jumps (jr) are smaller and faster than absolute jumps
> >  (jp).
> 
> WHAT!!!  I thought that jr took 12 cycles while jp took 10!  (Less if
> the address is pointed to by a register, I think.)

That's correct. Sure the byte you save with jr is often more
important than the loss of 2 clock cycles.



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