On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Roger Williams wrote:
> Overhead most of the time will be 8 cycles (and use of the
> accumulator). This check clears the way for 250 cycles of
> code. During evaluation of a long expression a check might
> need to be done that preserves the accumulator, which would
> take a bit longer.
accumulator and condition registers.
If you're going to go that far, you might want to consider complete
context switches / multitasking as well. =)
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