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Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love... by ummonk on Monday December 02, 2019 @01:04AM (#21680187)
Baremetal assembly
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Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love... by presumably on Monday December 02, 2019 @01:18AM (#21680235)
Counterexample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
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Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love... by saagarjha on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:37AM (#21681329)
Bugs are unintentional and can (and are) fixed.
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Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love... by johncolanduoni on Monday December 02, 2019 @09:37AM (#21682639)
Yeah, the book on performance concerns for assembly on Intel CPUs is pretty brief, only a few hundred pages: https://software.intel.com/en-us/download/intel-64-and-ia-32...
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