Stupid x86/ x86-64

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Re: Stupid x86/ x86-64

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Yeah, I just looked up the 3 and 7 numbers. They're from the 8088.
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doh... I never actually looked at clock cycle amounts.. just assumed...

quite sad that I wrote a 8086 emulator lol
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When I do, I tend to u-v-optimise first, and when there's little improvement there I go maxing out dependency distances (which can't do bad on any CPU after that).
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