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turndown on July 11, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (20...

Intel is coming out with an improved x86 instruction set that removes a lot of the cruft, called ‘APX’ for advanced performance extensions.

astrange on July 12, 2024 [–]

Amusingly it looks very much like arm64. It's hard to call it an improvement when the old instructions are still around though.

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