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If you account for all of the CPU "features" that can be exploited, you're looking at probably 80% of what makes it "ridiculously fast". If you also account for
by kbolino 3y ago
If you account for all of the CPU "features" that can be exploited, you're looking at probably 80% of what makes it "ridiculously fast". If you also account for all of the ways in which the entire modern hardware ecosystem can be exploited, you're probably looking at gross performance loss of over 90% to remove these "holes".
An overclocked 486 PC that can only run a single program at a time and isn't continuously connected to a network might be very secure, but replacing every modern computer with something like it will not be even remotely feasible. In most situations, it would be better to have some risk tolerance, and couple modern hardware with mitigations, disposability, and supply-chain security instead.