Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:58:06 +0500
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

> > The ratio of 8-bit:32-bit regs for the addition operation is
> > something like 140.97:102.87 on my Pentium.
> 
> Are you sure the test program is reliable enough?

Yes, 100%.

But the results are very CPU specific. Due to the different architectures of
Pentium and other machines, the results differ from one procesor to another,
especially the make (Intel, Amd, ...).