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Assembly Hall of Shame
The "Assembly Hall of Shame" is a repository that ranks x86 CPU instructions by their slowest possible performance rather than speed optimization. The current champion is the `fxrstor64` instruction on an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, which achieved over 198 billion cycles by loading data from a high-latency MMIO region while competing traffic saturated the PCIe bus. The project demonstrates extreme latency scenarios through careful instruction timing and strategic hardware contention.
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