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Re: [f-cpu] question to shifting unit



On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 05:25:12PM +0200, Andreas Romeyke wrote:
[...]
> Erm, why we use parallel shifting than
> use registers/acummulation instead?
> 
> I see, that a shift of 3 or more needs more cycles than parallel-shifting,
> but often we need a shift of one or two.

Hmm... we could add single-bit shift instructions that need one cycle,
and do the multi-bit shifts in 2 cycles.

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