Comment #0 by manlio.perillo — 2008-08-20T13:11:54Z
In the "Inline Assembler" documentation it is reported that "pause" opcode is equivalent to rep; nop;
This is not true on modern IA-32 CPUs.
PAUSE istruction can be executed with:
asm {
// "pause" opcode is not supported
db 0xf3, 0x90;
}