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> (which, incidentally, also makes MILL immune to Spectre because it doesn’t need to speculate) Mill still provides speculation, but it is exposed as part of t
by cwzwarich 7y ago
> (which, incidentally, also makes MILL immune to Spectre because it doesn’t need to speculate)
Mill still provides speculation, but it is exposed as part of the user-visible architecture. Before Spectre was publicized, the Mill team proposed using speculation in a way that would make Mill systems vulnerable to Spectre:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16125519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16125519
There is an obvious fix for this (avoid feeding speculated values into address calculations), but they didn't say how much it costs in terms of performance.
- thomasjames 7y agoIs Mill happening? Has there been silicon yet? I have been reading about it for so long, but have not seen any peer reviewed work on it, silicon or soft cores. I would like to see more exotic architectures out there, but I think I speak for many when I say that I am starting to question if the Mill architecture is going to land in a major way.
- zaarn 7y agoIf it happens or not, the Mill team still produced some of the most interesting talk videos on youtube that you can watch. I would highly recommend anyone who hasn't watched the series to do so, it's very in depth and interesting. Personally I hope that Mill happens. If it will beat existing CPUs left and right or not can then finally be answered.
- hyperion2010 7y agoLatest I saw on the forum was that they are writing a microkernel os so that they can run benchmarks and more importantly tests.
- __s 7y agohttps://millcomputing.com/topic/news https://millcomputing.com/topic/news