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Vaporware does tend to be pretty bug-free.

• maxharris 9y ago
  What part of the paper do you take issue with? Can you point to a specific design feature in the linked paper (or in any of the talks on the Mill CPU) that might be vulnerable?
  • wolfgke 9y ago
    > What part of the paper do you take issue with? There exists no Mill CPU - just software models of it at best.
    • gbrown_ 9y ago
      Do you not think it's reasonable to believe that the Mill is immune to these flaws without hardware given the information presented in this paper?
      • wolfgke 9y ago
        It is plausible, but without having a concrete CPU on which independent researchers are able to do independent tests I am rather cautious. Intel, AMD and ARM also claimed that the branch prediction on their CPUs cannot in practise be used to generate a side channel - Spectre proved otherwise.
• acehreli 9y ago
  Not really. :) The Mill has bugs at many levels from design to implementation both in software and hardware. It's even in the linked paper: "A code generator bug exposing a software vulnerability akin to Spectre variant 1 has been resolved with a bug fix, without hardware modifications."