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Do you mean that Itanium would have been safe?
by TomMarius 8y ago
Do you mean that Itanium would have been safe?
- PeCaN 8y agoIt's inherently not vulnerable to the Spectre/Meltdown family of attacks. They rely on speculative, out-of-order execution on modern CPUs, but Itanium is an in-order core with very limited (and software-controlled) speculation. It's actually not vulnerable to a bunch of other attacks as well (e.g. a buffer overflow cannot overwrite the return address on Itanium).