Say Hello to X64 Assembly Part 3

Re:Say Hello to X64 Assembly Part 3 by dllthomas on Friday September 19, 2014 @06:52PM (#8342912)

And then you apply it in testing, note the regression, and either don't apply it in production or apply it as you push out an update.

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Re:Say Hello to X64 Assembly Part 3 by pjmlp on Friday September 19, 2014 @07:38PM (#8343058)

Do you control all the processors your customers use?

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Re:Say Hello to X64 Assembly Part 3 by dllthomas on Friday September 19, 2014 @07:48PM (#8343095)

If the software will be running on the machines of "customers" and you do not "control all the processors" they use, then you're not in the "sometimes" I was discussing above.

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Re:Say Hello to X64 Assembly Part 3 by pjmlp on Saturday September 20, 2014 @01:05AM (#8343732)

That was what I was trying to say, somehow badly I guess.

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Re:Say Hello to X64 Assembly Part 3 by dllthomas on Saturday September 20, 2014 @08:58AM (#8344389)

Yeah, I certainly didn't want to give the impression it was a common situation, just that it totally does happen.

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