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<h2>Description</h2>
<p>This instruction performs no operation. It is a one-byte or multi-byte NOP that takes up space in the instruction stream but does not impact machine context, except for the EIP register.</p>
<p>The multi-byte form of NOP is available on processors with model encoding:</p>
<p>The multi-byte NOP instruction does not alter the content of a register and will not issue a memory operation. The instruction’s operation is the same in non-64-bit modes and 64-bit mode.</p>
<h2>Operation</