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Author Re: possibly new variant of arithmatic coding?
Matt Mahoney

2005-06-07, 3:55 am

chapman Billy wrote:
> Note on "rep":
>
> "rep" checks the value of (e)cx *before* doing any iterations, thus rep
> movs *will do nothing* if (e)cx is initially zero. "Loop", on the other
> hand, would do the iteration first and then check (E)CX.

Yeah I guess I should have known this (since I teach a class in
assembler).

-- Matt Mahoney

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