At 15:58 03/30/99 -0600, Lawrence Lile wrote:
>I'm comparing the assembly instructions:
>            // CLRF X is implied - I make sure X is always zero at this

>Racing them against ANY of the looping instructions in C -  such as
>for (X = 0; x < 256; x++)
>for(x = 255; x > 0; x--)

both of these do not imply x to have some sensible value, therefore they
have to set it, which takes some of the overhead.

>Is there a C instruction that can make a nice tight loop that takes up 2
>bytes of ROM and executes 256 times?

that wouldn't be a "c instruction", because this depends a whole lot on the
compiler and the optimizations it performs.

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