Cheat Engine

[VolatileAce]

I'd appreciate it if anyone can point out the faster code (or are generally the same and is dependent on CPU given) and give a brief explanation. Thanks.

Both of the codes assign z the smaller of the two values, x and y.

[Slugsnack]

i would say second one because movs are pretty much the fastest instructions. however if you look on masm forums there are some nice code timing macros that you can use. or i think it is already in one of the libraries included when you install masm but i just never used them

[DoomsDay]

This first would be faster;
This would be even faster:

[arigity]

second ones faster.