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31 votes

C standard compliant way to access null pointer address?

c language-lawyer undefined-behavior null-pointer asked Feb 21 '16 at 14:49
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20 votes

Scheduled Ryanair flights from Zaventem moved to Charleroi?

event-based-effects brussels delays ryanair flight-status asked Mar 24 '16 at 9:15
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17 votes

Are Playstation 4 communications really harder to monitor?

encryption monitoring instant-messaging asked Mar 22 '16 at 13:26
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13 votes

Understanding the impact of lfence on a loop with two long dependency chains, for increasing lengths

performance assembly x86 cpu-architecture perf asked Aug 23 '18 at 12:39
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8 votes

Can the LSD issue uOPs from the next iteration of the detected loop?

assembly x86 cpu-architecture intel-pmu asked Aug 28 '18 at 9:32
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8 votes

How are MMIO, IO and PCI configuration request routed and handled by the OS in a NUMA system?

io x86 cpu-architecture numa asked Jul 30 at 18:31
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6 votes

What does the PCOMMIT instruction do?

memory x86 non-volatile asked Jan 26 '17 at 16:22
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5 votes

Why is this specpoline not working on Kaby lake?

assembly x86-64 cpu-architecture branch-prediction speculative-execution asked Apr 5 at 20:01
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5 votes

Why flush the pipeline for Memory Order Violation caused by other logical processors?

assembly x86 cpu-architecture memory-barriers asked Apr 7 at 19:52
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5 votes

How to fit the SIR and SEIR models to the epidemiological data?

matlab fitting curve-fitting epidemiology asked Oct 18 '17 at 15:44
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Differences among various interrupts: SCI, SMI, NMI, and normal Interrupt
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