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to: GILES JACOBSEN
from: PETER LOUWEN
date: 1997-07-24 18:45:00
subject: Re: New to ASM

 -=> Quoting Giles Jacobsen to Eric Benoit <=-
 GJ> DON'T:
 GJ> MOV AX, 0
 GJ> DO:
 GJ> XOR AX,AX ;This is a bit faster :)
On later processors (486 and up), they are equally fast.
However, there is an important difference: the second instruction alters the
flags, whereas the first one doesn't.
Peter
... Simplex , Duplex , Triplex , COMPLEX ?
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