Hey! A word for my friends who are interested in machine architecture, but like me, aren&#x27;t already experts in the topic.<p>I&#x27;d command-clicked this article to read it later, got busy with other stuff, then ran across the tab again. Found it so compelling that I wrote dang - well past midnight! - to see if it could get boosted back to the home page. Turns out this had been done once already, but he gave it <i>another</i> shot thanks to my suggestion.<p>So don&#x27;t make me a liar, go read this article if the topic is at all interesting to you. It takes a simple little case - zeroing a register - maybe the most fundamental &quot;spike solution&quot; there is [1] - and traces a few ways to do it and how different processors interpret them.<p>I learned quite a lot in the ten minutes it took to read this.<p>If my advice is wrong, you know where to find the downvote button. ;-)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=spike+solution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=spike+solution</a>