> Yeah, clac/stac are horrenously expensive on Zen 2. I think they are
> microcoded - and not the fast kind - so effectively serializing.

AIUI, Zen5 is the first uarch capable of renaming the AC flag.

This make STAC/CLAC "lfence-like" in practice on older CPUs, because of
an implementation constraint of not being able to execute speculatively.

~Andrew

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