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...But is it better than the Z80, which doesn't always have to push its registers at all?



65816 interrupts take 7 cycles when emulating a 6502, 8 when native. z80 seems to take 11-19 depending on what kind of interrupt it is.

Of course, there's also an instruction to wait for an interrupt which takes 1 cycle to wake up after the interrupt.




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