On: ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark

[andy_ppp]

I’m kind of interested about what happens if you throw random opcodes at processors now!

[aw1621107 → andy_ppp]

You might be interested in sandsifter [0], which does precisely that!

[0]: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter

[dirtypersian → andy_ppp]

I would guess the processor would just cause an exception/interrupt and it would just call an OS level exception/interrupt handler which would probably tell the user what the exception/interrupt was that occured; in this case an unsupported instruction.

[nicoburns → andy_ppp]

I believe most processors have undocumented opcodes. Often used for internal debugging or similar.

[grishka → andy_ppp]

Your program will crash with SIGILL.