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Its not wrong though

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Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 2 years ago

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  A fancy way to say do nothing is not the same as translating back and forth. Example: Show me the intermediate translation.
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    You’re right.
    
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      GF2P8AFFINEINVQB xmm1, xmm2, 10
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    Also that instruction does not do nothing, it resets the CPU register to zero without having to access RAM. Far from a NOP instruction.

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