On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Jim Keohane wrote:
> p.s. I also did quite well with 6502 asm code in cpu speed tests vs
> 80x86 and Z80 programmers. The zero page, for all intents and purposes,
> is 256 registers. 6502 is single cycle instruction execution. Look up
> definitions of RISC and the 6502 is arguably RISC-like.
No 6502 instruction takes less than 2 cycles to complete.
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