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		kadoban on May 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Removing characters from strings faster with AVX-5... There's not many great places for such a switch, and even then, then you have to validate _that_ behavior. It's mostly just not worth it.

pantalaimon on May 2, 2022 [–]

Several motherboard vendors added that very switch in UEFI (some even with the option to force an older microcode version AFAIK) before it was disabled in hardware by Intel

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