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[AI summary] The user has provided a comprehensive overview of the x86 architecture, covering topics such as basic arithmetic operations, control flow with jumps and conditionals, memory addressing modes, the stack and calling conventions, advanced instructions like SSE, virtual memory, and differences between x86-32 and x86-64. The user is likely looking for a summary or clarification of the x86 architecture, possibly for learning purposes or to reinforce their understanding.
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The form a compiler producers before it emits machine code or runs on a virtual machine
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Last week at Hacker School I did a quick presentation on python bytecode and the dis module. The disassembler is a very powerful tool with a gentle ...
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If you build an application that uses large, contiguous amounts of memory, it can increase your performance if you allocate this memory in so-called huge pages. Linux offers you two ways of doing that - a legacy way and a modern way. This article describes the modern way of using huge pages, so called transparent huge pages (THP) and applies the techniques from a previous article to verify that we actually got huge pages. The article starts by giving a super-short recap on how paging works and why huge p...
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