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From: addison@pollux.usc.edu (Richard Addison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: DMA or polling (was Re: GVP controller)
Summary: Try again
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Date: 13 Aug 89 21:16:49 GMT
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In article <63241@linus.UUCP> rachamp@mbunix (Champeaux) writes:
>The minimum loop required for transferring words from GVP's onboard buffer to
>main memory is the following:
>
>loop:	move  (a0)+,(a1)+	(24 clock cycles)
>	dbra  d0,loop		(18 clock cycles)

Try again.  This is an obvious way of doing it, but it is not the fastest.

Richard Addison
"No comment."