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Re:I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower by lmkg on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:21PM (#22983754)
Raymond Chen has an entire article on the use of NOP in Windows 95 code. In one case, they had to fix a bug with a 32-bit NOP, because using a 16-bit NOP would introduce a different bug!

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110112-00/?p=11...

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