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Re:Here's to the systems programmers – Writing Hello World o... by Someone on Friday May 13, 2016 @05:12PM (#11693273)
I'm not saying one should expect or demand it in a project like this, but minimalistic pipelining should be doable; both the 6502 (http://www.6502.org/users/andre/65k/arch.html#pipelining) and (IIRC) the 8080 started fetching the next instruction before finishing execution of the current one, where possible.
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Re:Here's to the systems programmers – Writing Hello World o... by to3m on Friday May 13, 2016 @06:51PM (#11693700)
Do you have an example of a case where this provided a performance benefit to 6502 code?
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