> Modern general purpose CPUs sacrificed some security for performance. I don't think that's a fair way of stating it. I think it's a case of independent perf

> Modern general purpose CPUs sacrificed some security for performance. I don't think that's a fair way of stating it. I think it's a case of independent performance improvements in branch prediction, cache architecture and out-of-order instruction retirement that on their own have negligible security impact but when combined in a single system reveal emergent behavior.