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by chipaca 3308 days ago
I think it's just a bit of hyperbole. I don't know enough of this to know whether http://c9x.me/x86/html/file_module_x86_id_176.html is complete, but it gives you a sense of it all. (also https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf if you haven't seen it)
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Huh, interesting.

Apparently there are 35 rows in the table at http://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/MOV.html (according to Chrome and `$0.childElementCount`). I only discovered gcc.godbolt.org links to documentation via context menu just the other day!

Regarding the PDF... ouch. Wonder if any executable obfuscators have tried that approach :P (and I also wonder what sort of overhead it has.)