24 Mar
2018
24 Mar
'18
11:09 p.m.
On 3/25/2018 9:34 AM, juan wrote:
Regardless, as far as I understand it, the problem is not speculative execution per se, but shitty implementations that don't take security into account. Because the engineers responsible for them are incompetent or/and corrupt.
It is hard to do speculative execution right - which is another reason why it belongs in the compiler, which is a lot easier to fix, than on the chip.