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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:35:31 +0300
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On Mon, 9 Sep 2024 20:52:29 +0000
mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Sep 2024 9:26:57 +0000, Michael S wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 09 Sep 2024 07:07:25 GMT
> > anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
> >
> > Does hardware on which negative stride is faster really exists?  
> 
> When the negative stride can be compared to zero, yes. else no.
> But the performance gain is often zero and sometimes negative.

Direction of the count is not related to the sign of pointer's
stride.