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Assembler optimalisation - how to avoid a jump? (Developers)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 13.05.2012, 22:15

>shr ecx,1;rep movsd;adc ecx,ecx;rep movsw {fast 32bit write}

It is nice piece of code I think.
ECX is number ox pixels to plot. I forgot to mention that I draw in 16bpp mode
so one pixel are two bytes.

If I want to transfer 2 pixels than I move 4 bytes. So:
2 shr 1 = 1 (and CF is set to zero)

REP MOVSD with ECX=1 does one pass of dword transfer so two pixels are moved
After this ECX is guaranted to be zero. And because CF is zero too, after ADC ECX,ECX is ECX still zero. Then...
REP MOVSW with ECX=0 SKIPS THE TRANSFER

That is how this piece works.

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DOS-u-akbar!

Complete thread:

• Assembler optimalisation - how to avoid a jump? - Laaca, 13.05.2012, 20:38 (Developers)
  • Assembler optimalisation - how to avoid a jump? - Rugxulo, 13.05.2012, 21:10
    • Assembler optimalisation - how to avoid a jump? - Laaca, 13.05.2012, 22:15
      • Assembler optimalisation - how to avoid a jump? - marcov, 13.05.2012, 23:22
  • Assembler optimisation - how to avoid a jump? - ecm, 13.05.2012, 23:32
    • Assembler optimisation - how to avoid a jump? - Laaca, 14.05.2012, 18:15
      • Assembler optimisation - variant 3, sbb - ecm, 14.05.2012, 18:22
      • Assembler optimisation - how to avoid a jump? - Rugxulo, 16.05.2012, 10:34
        • Assembler optimisation - how to avoid a jump? - bretjohn, 16.05.2012, 16:42
          • Assembler optimisation - speed, size, etc - ecm, 16.05.2012, 16:59