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Basically lzcnt or leading zero count on x86: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/lzcnt

> It should be noted that on processors that do not support LZCNT, the instruction byte encoding is executed as BSR.

This. Boggles.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/43443701 - interesting - it seems to be a side effect of changing meaning of an instruction.