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Originally Posted by Bharat Nain
More importantly, how much does it matter in our application? What difference will it make?
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Bharat just won this thread.
An instruction cycle here or there makes zero difference in the face of the larger picture. If you want to have a truly useless argument, just remember that our new processor is pipelined AND has a double dispatch with multiple ALU elements.
So while you are all optimizing the instructions, I'll be working on what I want the code to do.
As a point of interest, I know someone who wrote his own graphical programming language that compiles to something that is on average twice as fast as C for embedded power and motion control applications.