Addressing the adding situation

23 points by invlpg


mpweiher

Fun fact: on the original 68K CPU, lea was the fast way to do 32 bit addition, because the data path inside the CPU was only 16 bits and there was only a single 16 bit data ALU, requiring two passes, whereas the internal address bus was 32 bits and had two 16 bit ALUs, so that could do the computation in a single pass.