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Toivo Henningsson said...

That's quite a lot of cycles for multiplication. I wonder how fast a multiplication algorithm you could code in 8086 assembly, but I'm sure it would be even slower. I guess the 8086 takes many cycles for most operations since there's just not very much that the microcode can do in a single cycle.

Mar 15, 2023, 4:38:36 PM

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