Re: Processor specific optimisations

"Mickaël Pointier" <mpointie@eden-studios.fr>
30 Jan 2002 00:59:34 -0500

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From: "Mickaël Pointier" <mpointie@eden-studios.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 30 Jan 2002 00:59:34 -0500
Organization: ImagiNET / Colt Internet
References: 02-01-077 02-01-126 02-01-151
Keywords: optimize, architecture
Posted-Date: 30 Jan 2002 00:59:34 EST

> Ah, nice. Speaking of the 6502 and deliberately falling off the
> edge of the earth as a programming technique, has anyone ever used
> 6502 "pre-indexed indirect" addressing? I didn't find any occurance
> of it in the C64 ROMs, 8k by Commodore and 8k by Microsoft.


I never manage to find a case where it was worthwhile to use it.
This specific adressing mode takes too much cpu time, and too
much room in zero page for my tastes :)


Anyway, if someone has any practical use, and more specificaly, if a
compiler could use it efficiently, go ahead !


        Mickael Pointier
[There are lots of CISC instruction sets with instructions that compilers
never use because it's faster to use several simpler ones. The x86
ENTER instruction is a good example. -John]


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