'bx lr' vs 'mov pc,lr'

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 21:47:35 EDT 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Jamie Lokier <jamie at shareable.org> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> > Why do you want bx?  bx isn't available on older CPUs.
>>
>> Isn't it faster? I don't know if it would make sense to try it on
>> newer CPUs.
>
> That's interesting.  Do you know if it's faster?

Nope, I'm assuming because of this:
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.sys.arm/2006-04/msg00031.html

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Felipe Contreras



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