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Re:X86 Register Encoding by bonzini on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:02PM (#12849593)
Those instructions were hard to optimize because of partial flags stalls. In the end because of this and because of strength reduction compilers were not generating that many INC and DEC instructions.
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