All about APX conditional ISA
Motivation Somtimes branch mispredictions are a major performance limiter in workloads. The bottleneck is data-dependent conditional branches and hard to mit...
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All about APX JMPABS
Why do we need JMPABS? JMPABS, which, as the name already suggests, allows jumping to a 64-bit absolute address. Before APX, X86 has 32-bit displacement limi...
All about APX relocation
REX2 Intel® APX introduces a new 2-byte REX2 prefix in order to support 32 general-purpose registers (GPRs).
Reflections on life, marriage and love
What is marriage? Marriage does not solve anything, and problems that existed before marriage will persist after marriage. Marriage is just a contract, mainl...
X86 relocation
What’s relocation Relocations are entries in binaries that are left to be filled later – at link time by the toolchain linker or at runtime by the dynamic li...