No vs Nop - What's the difference?
no | nop |
The molecular formula for nitric oxide.
The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Norway.
ISO 3166-1
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(programming) A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
* 1999 , Dominic Sweetman, See MIPS Run
* 2004 , Patterson et al'', ''Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface
(programming) To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
* 1992 , The Cyborg, The Cracking Manual
As nouns the difference between no and nop
is that no is noh (japanese theatrical genre) while nop is (programming) a no-op; a cpu instruction that does nothing.As a verb nop is
(programming) to replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.no
Translingual
(wikipedia NO)Symbol
(head)nop
English
Noun
(en noun)- The MIPS instruction set is rich in nops , since any instruction with zero as a destination is guaranteed to do nothing.
- Notice that in computing CPI or IPC, we do not count any nops executed as useful instructions.
Verb
(en-verb)- For example, if there is a CALL 3140 and we want to skip this call, we can NOP it out.