`pxor` is a zero-uop register-rename and `gf2p8affineqb dest, zero, int8` is a very quick single-instruction way to use affine galois transformations to fill a register with an immediate byte without touching memory.
`pxor` is a zero-uop register-rename and `gf2p8affineqb dest, zero, int8` is a very quick single-instruction way to use affine galois transformations to fill a register with an immediate byte without touching memory.