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assembly - What is faster: JMP or string of NOPs?

I'm implementing binary translation and have to deal with sequences of NOPs (0x90) with length about 16 opcodes. Is it better for performance to place JMP (to the end) at start of such sequences?

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The Intel Architecture Software developer's guide, volume 2B (instructions N-Z) contains the following table (pg 4-12) about NOP:

Table 4-9. Recommended Multi-Byte Sequence of NOP Instruction

Length    Assembly                                   Byte Sequence
=================================================================================
2 bytes   66 NOP                                     66 90H
3 bytes   NOP DWORD ptr [EAX]                        0F 1F 00H
4 bytes   NOP DWORD ptr [EAX + 00H]                  0F 1F 40 00H
5 bytes   NOP DWORD ptr [EAX + EAX*1 + 00H]          0F 1F 44 00 00H
6 bytes   66 NOP DWORD ptr [EAX + EAX*1 + 00H]       66 0F 1F 44 00 00H
7 bytes   NOP DWORD ptr [EAX + 00000000H]            0F 1F 80 00 00 00 00H
8 bytes   NOP DWORD ptr [EAX + EAX*1 + 00000000H]    0F 1F 84 00 00 00 00 00H
9 bytes   66 NOP DWORD ptr [EAX + EAX*1 + 00000000H] 66 0F 1F 84 00 00 00 00 00H

This allows you to construct "padding NOP" of certain sizes. With two of those, you can bridge 16 Bytes, although I second the suggestion to check the optimization guides (for the CPU you're targeting) whether a JMP is faster than two such NOPs.


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