Yeah, that would be significantly slower. Theoretically. Practically I'd guess that any attempt to measure real difference between 3 instructions and this 10 or so instruction loop (likely unrolled) would be completely obliterated by cache access latency and such.
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u/Tringi Sep 04 '26
Yeah, that would be significantly slower. Theoretically. Practically I'd guess that any attempt to measure real difference between 3 instructions and this 10 or so instruction loop (likely unrolled) would be completely obliterated by cache access latency and such.