How I got nerd sniped into benchmarking legacy x86 instructions
It all started with a meme tweet: Laugh, scroll past, then I started wondering, “what are the chances this obscure opcode is faster than optimized loads?” and I realized I had just been nerd sniped. So I decided to dig up my half-remembered memories of how to benchmark opcodes and...
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