Intel is releasing the source of XED but canceling IACA which is built on top of XED. Color me confused. Still, this will be useful for a lot of projects to hav

Intel is releasing the source of XED but canceling IACA which is built on top of XED. Color me confused. Still, this will be useful for a lot of projects to have this piece of infrastructure for such an important CISC ISA available under an Apache license. Boring as hell, but useful. For example, ARM tests their ARM LLVM backend using a golden reference implementation. This is the MC Hammer test: encode/decode assemble/disassemble[1]. This can be the golden reference for the same with x86_64 and useful for GCC+LLVM. [1] https://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/Slides/Richard_Barton.pdf https://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/Slides/Richard_Barton.pdf