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Originally Posted by Megol
Of course it is/was doable - but your assertion that the cost wasn't high is fundamentally flawed.
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You argue against something i have not written.
I've written "not as high as some said", not "not high at all".
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Originally Posted by Megol
It may be that for this implementation the bottlenecks were elsewhere and/or that some other feature made this easier to implement.
But MOVEP is still a problem instruction in a general implementation.
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A problem instruction, yes, but up to what point ? Many instructions can be problematic. This is life. For example MOVEM is a magnitude more difficult than MOVEP.