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By itself, sure, but fidelity to x86 requires the PF calculation be made alongside a wide range of common instructions, which is a significant cost either for the microarchitecture or for an emulator.


Yes the problem is that instructions such as CMP, that are often at the end of a basic block, will leave around PF for later use in other basic blocks (which likely will never happen but you cannot know!).




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