Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: on Nostr: Saw a blog post titled "How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have?" and my immediate ...
Saw a blog post titled "How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have?" and my immediate thought was "it's impossible to know and a sin to ask".
If you think the answer is 16, by the way, no it is not.
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