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Article #7306Re: Assembler Programming - Costs versus Benefits
From: Dave Love
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 19:12
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 19:12
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mt87692@tut.fi (Mikko Tsokkinen) writes: > 90% of all games I have ever seen for amiga doesn't run with faster >processors because the disk loader and other waiting is badly written. >They use wait loops like this: >wait move.l #2000,d0 > dbra.s d0,wait That's probably the only loop guaranteed to take the same amount of time on ANY processor. Forever... :) -- Dave Love dcl@ncsc1.att.com CIS: 75126,2223 bix: dlove <insert standard disclaimer here>
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