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And yet that's what every good engineer did when Spectre came out. Same with the Pentium fdiv bugs, and same with a host of microcode bugs that come up all the
by cscheid 3y ago
And yet that's what every good engineer did when Spectre came out. Same with the Pentium fdiv bugs, and same with a host of microcode bugs that come up all the time.
Not my business to decide what you think is reasonable. That's just what happens in the world, and what (in my view) good engineers sign up for.
- chromoblob 3y agoThe choice is between letting hardware be not finalized and letting that force software to be non-finalizable, and letting software be finalizable and forcing the hardware to be finalized too. I like latter more. Finalized hardware is better by itself as well.
- ChadNauseam 3y agoWe would all like bug-free hardware, but we won't get it and our job is to write good software in the environment we were given
- chromoblob 3y ago> we won't get it Why do you think so?
- cscheid 3y ago> The choice What choice? I have to fix bugs today as they come.