From: tom burgess <tburgess AT drao DOT nrc DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: [Q] Which is faster?
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 19:51:18 -0700
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good AT soback DOT kornet DOT nm DOT kr wrote:
> 
> I have a question in DJGPP inline assembly.
> Among MOVW %AX, %BX, MOVL %EAX, %EBX
> 
> This is just about speed, not others.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

On 386 and 486, same speed. On Pentium, 16 bit operations (MOVW) are
SLOWER. (1 cycle prefix byte penalty, plus additional penalties
because instruction pairing is disabled)

	regards, tom