ChipsTom's Hardwareabout 2 hours ago
CPU deoptimization project finds slowest x86 instruction
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Christopher Domas created a CPU deoptimization leaderboard measuring the slowest x86 instructions. The worst offender takes 198 billion cycles, spanning 62 seconds to execute. The project inverts typical latency analysis to find the single instruction with the highest latency.
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