From:	"J.E." <cellis AT voyageur DOT ca>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: djgpp slow (source files)
Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:53:19 -0600
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Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> 16 bit instructions are actually much slower than 8 or 32 bit > operations. 

What!?  Man, all this time I figured that using words (with my 16-bit
assembler) to copy buffers and stuff was faster than using bytes.  Why
is using bytes faster than using words?  

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