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Re:Steam hit by major security breach by georgerobinson on Monday July 27, 2015 @07:57PM (#9958771)
Since an optimizing compiler is free to go to town on functions such as string comparison, are these functions typically written in assembler per-architecture? I.e. one for x86 and x86-64, another for MIPS, RISC, etc?
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