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The Assembly Hall of Shame ranks x86 instructions by slowest execution, with fxrstor64 topping the leaderboard at 198,002,498,236 cycles. The project exploits MMIO, PCIe fabric contention, and microcode assists to find the absolute floor of single-instruction performance.
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