The instruction is smaller than “mov eax, 0” (because it includes the 32-bit zero) and the result is the same. Notice that smaller may mean more instructions in cache for a tight loop, so it may also result in better performace, too.

Thanks for the heads up! With so many obscure hardware items it’s sometimes unclear whether a gadget is just weird or fake bs 😅

Yeah, me too. I don’t see (at first) how it is supposed to accelerate anything.

Librewolf. See !Librewolf@lemmy.ml for tips on configuring it for different use cases.

Thanks Microsoft, but you’re late, as usual :-(

Python. At some point there were even talks about a common runtime, Parrot.

Good, fuck Oracle! Any tech they touch turns to shit, or as the article describes them, they’re a “Reverse Midas”

I had never thought about it, but it makes total sense and would gap the divide between the web and social networks 🫂

Track which countries these fuckers are fleeing to, push for stricter wealth taxes there.