From: "Geo" 

"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message
news:427685d4$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> MOV EAX,1   (this is a 5 byte instruction in flatland, 3 mem cycles just
to
> fetch)
>
> on a 386sx type CPU it can be replaced with (if you don't care about
flags):
>
> XOR EAX,EAX  (2 bytes)
> INC EAX  (1 byte)

So realistically, if you have some 2K loop that executes this repeatedly,
how much faster can it be?

Geo.

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