Is "pop static 19" inefficient by nature?

Posted by burge91 on
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Can't figure out how to do this without doing A=A+1 19 times. Need D for the location addition (static location + 19) but also to acquire the value from the stack. Or, very possibly, I'm being very dumb? Am I?