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Spectre. It was a vulnerability before 2015, but not known publicly until early 2018. It's hugely disruptive to microarchitecture, particularly with crossing ke
by titzer 5y ago
Spectre. It was a vulnerability before 2015, but not known publicly until early 2018. It's hugely disruptive to microarchitecture, particularly with crossing kernel/user space boundaries, separating state between hyperthreads, etc.
- code_biologist 5y ago100%. Feasible timing attacks mean we must look at all speculative execution with suspicion. But dang that's a lot of performance to give up.