• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I still don’t know why this architecture went for a Double XOR as the NOP, I guess they were just flexing that the reference chip design could do both in a single cycle

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      When returning from kernel code, one should issue Drop Execution Ring Privileges, of course.