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On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> What state does it leave the condition codes ?  That matters. 

Alan, rep ; nop is one of the suggested 2 byte fillers in the Athon
optimization guide; it's handled during instruction decode and is
completely free.  It also has no effect on K6s.

		-ben

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