More steps in some pops than equivalent pushes?

[culchie]

My experience is that there are more assembly instructions required to POP to a location in some segments than are required to push from the same location. As this seems counter-intuitive somehow could someone let me know if I am wrong.

[Francisco José Tornay Mej]

I've just implemented the memory access features and yes, my implementation of some pops is (pretty) longer than the equivalent pushes. I can't think of any other way of implementing it. I think it's necessary because of the scarcity of registers in the CPU.