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> It gets even worse in bigger functions where out-of-order execution starts being a thing.

In addition, add that your processor isn't actually executing x86 (nor ARM etc) instructions, but interprets/compiles them to something more fundamental.

So there's an additional layer of out-of-order instructions and general shenanigans happening. Especially with branch prediction in the mix.




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