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Is the Mill architecture solving problems orthogonal to this?
by iso-8859-1 9y ago
Is the Mill architecture solving problems orthogonal to this?
- thristian 9y agoThe Mill doesn't do speculative execution, so I guess it should be safe from Spectre? It also doesn't have a normal TLB and a very different idea of memory protection, so perhaps it will be safe from Meltdown too. At the end of the day, though, Meltdown and Spectre are both consequences of all the caching between a modern CPU and main memory, so the Mill will likely need to at least be careful.
- deepnotderp 9y agoNah, the Mill does branch prediction, so it will still be in trouble. The Mill also does speculative execution, not OoOE but still speculative via predication.