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Comment by tialaramex

"It's actually explicit if you look at how it's implemented" is true for everything.

If you look at how it's implemented you can see that the classic "XOR a register with itself to zero that register" trick is in fact basically free in a modern CPU rather than using up the ALU because of how register renaming is implemented. But hopefully we're not pretending that "You could buy the CPU vendor's technical manuals" makes this now explicit.

parent tialaramex 3 days ago

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