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Also do you like prefixes? Asking for a friend. If you like x86 at all then prefixes are not a good thing but indeed a great thing. Prefixes are what allowed A
by CalChris 7y ago
Also do you like prefixes? Asking for a friend.
If you like x86 at all then prefixes are not a good thing but indeed a great thing. Prefixes are what allowed AMD to completely destroy Intel's Itanium. They simply took x86 and reused the REX prefix to access 16 more registers. Yeah, the committed a few other architectural atrocities before the god of expediency, but they won and Intel had to crawl back and beg forgiveness in the x86 space that they owned.