[drinfinity]

I find it interesting that somebody dedicates his or her life to figuring out how these CPUs work when exactly that information is just laying about in some vault in Santa Clara.

[shaklee3]

If we're talking about dedicating their life, that's likely to be Agner Fog: https://www.agner.org/optimize/

He's put out the most detailed third-party documentation on Intel and AMD processors that I've ever seen.