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by hulitu 1057 days ago
> While working on our fixes, I ran the test programs for quite a while and I never saw anything resembling a 'text' string. However when I ran a browser I saw streams of what was probably graphics-related fragments flowing past. The base system clearly uses AVX very rarely by itself.

So it seems that your statement is only true for the base system.

Those days the web browser is the main path for RCEs on a user's desktop. For example firefox on a linux system uses around 25 external libraries, if not more.