From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: vax timings again Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7188 Posted: Thu May 13 20:59:04 1982 Received: Fri May 14 05:31:06 1982 >From GZ@MIT-MC Thu May 13 20:55:09 1982 Does anyone know whether the MOVC instruction is really the fastest way to move a large block of memory (as opposed to, say, a tight loop of (properly aligned) MOVO's or something like that) More generally, while it's been pointed out that it's impossible to get absolute times for instructions, does anybody have any info on relative speeds of different ways of doing the same thing, "all other factors being the same".