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May 22, 2022
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What is exactly the base pointer and stack pointer? To what do they point?

Using this example coming from wikipedia, in which DrawSquare() calls DrawLine(), (Note that this diagram has high addresses at the bottom and low ...

May 21, 2022
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What is a retpoline and how does it work?

In order to mitigate against kernel or cross-process memory disclosure (the Spectre attack), the Linux kernel1 will be compiled with a new option, ...

May 20, 2022
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What does multicore assembly language look like?

Once upon a time, to write x86 assembler, for example, you would have instructions stating “load the EDX register with the value 5”, ...

May 19, 2022
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How to run a program without an operating system?

How do you run a program all by itself without an operating system running? Can you create assembly programs that the computer can ...

May 18, 2022
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How to compile Tensorflow with SSE4.2 and AVX instructions?

This is the message received from running a script to check if Tensorflow is working: I tensorflow/stream_executor/dso_loader.cc:125] successfully opened CUDA library libcublas.so.8.0 locally ...

May 16, 2022
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Deoptimizing a program for the pipeline in Intel Sandybridge-family CPUs

I’ve been racking my brain for a week trying to complete this assignment and I’m hoping someone here can lead me toward the ...

May 13, 2022
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