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It's not that simple anymore... In modern CPUs, NOPs are discarded by the decoding units so they never occupy the exeuction units. If decoding BW is not saturat
by zvrba 14y ago
It's not that simple anymore... In modern CPUs, NOPs are discarded by the decoding units so they never occupy the exeuction units. If decoding BW is not saturated (and most often, it's not), NOPs are indeed "free".