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In that case it's all of them. Some might like having both a MOV and a XOR in some special cases (one to avoid partial register stalls and one to avoid partial flags stalls, if I remember correctly) but even in those cases it's usually easy enough to avoid partial register stalls in some other way and just use XOR.



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