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Operation Costs Measured in CPU Clock Cycles
I have written on the merits of 64-bit vs 32-bit, or on the AMD Bulldozer CPU Architecture Overview. An article in ithare.com gave a very good overview about the relative performance of various CPU operations. Below is the graphic:
The above image is from IT Hare on Soft.ware.
Also see the often quoted Agner Fog: Instruction Tables.