Alex Ionescu wrote:
(To be honest, my original idea was to use "nop" and overwrite it with "ret", but both Patrick (who wrote the patch) and MS were right in making it a "ret" by default and using "nop" to overwrite, since that's even faster).
I don't understand how a modified nop to a ret can be faster than a ret generated at compile time, or vice versa. However, having a ret by default makes more sense ;)
- Thomas