Hi Shane (Shane Nelson), in <Pine.LNX.3.96.970902133152.20030y-100000@cheetah.spots.ab.ca> on Sep 2 you wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Scott Dattalo wrote:
> 
> > How fast can you logically AND two bits?
> >
> > Given:
> >  bit_a  of register A
> >  bit_b  of register B
> >  bit_c  of register C
> >
> > The goal in C parlance is:
> >
> >   C.bit_c = A.bit_a & B.bot_b;
> 
> 
>   bsf   C,bit_c         ;assume the result will be high.
>   btfss A,bit_a         ;does bit_a make the result low?
>   bcf   C,bit_c         ;yes.
>   btfss B,bit_b         ;does bit_b make the result low?
>   bcf   C,bit_c         ;yes.
> 
> 2+3+2+1=8 points if this works :)

You can save a cycle:

	bsf  C,bit_c
	btfsc        A,bit_a
	btfss        B,bit_b
	bcf  C,bit_c