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Christopher Domas Ships 'Assembly Hall of Shame' — Cataloguing the Slowest Possible x86 Instructions, 600 Stars in Three Days
The xoreaxeaxeax GitHub account, best known for the rosenbridge x86 hardware-backdoor research, created asm-hall-of-shame on August 6 and it reached 600 stars by August 9 while hitting r/programming at 99 upvotes. The premise inverts the usual optimization exercise — 'racing to the bottom of CPU performance,' cataloguing which instruction sequences are pathologically slow on real silicon rather than which are fast. For anyone reasoning about inference kernels or hand-tuned hot loops, the value is a documented negative-space map of the x86 microarchitecture; note that the separate rosenbridge repo trending alongside it this weekend is 2018-era research resurfacing, not new.
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