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Comment by vardump

23 days ago

I wonder whether there are some prefixes that cause (some) CPUs to execute the instruction a lot slower.

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jxors  23 days ago

This is indeed a thing. I believe in general instructions are executed slower when there are more than 4 legacy prefixes. And there are plenty of other timing differences between different microarchitectures

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