Re: A89: Starting out assembly, need help

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Subject: Re: A89: Starting out assembly, need help
From: Nathan Mueller <nlmueller@students.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:43:05 -0600
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>In a message dated 12/2/98 9:59:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>m_rayman@bigfoot.com writes:
>
>> macros
>
>Does an assembly have to have macros to do certain things?

No, it's just like a function but instead of branching the function is
pasted in place.  Your program will be bigger but will run faster.  Because
of the early pipelining on the m68k, you waste 4 instructions when you
branch.  If you have a function that you use a lot and you don't care about
size, using macros can really speed up execution.

	--Nate

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