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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by zymhan on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:40PM (#16047319)
There is no way the average technology user is going to understand the architectural distinctions of DRAM implementations enough to base their purchasing decisions on that.
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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by userbinator on Monday January 01, 2018 @02:01PM (#16047432)
I agree, there needs to be an easy but also reliable way to show the problem. The FDIV bug received much public attention because it could be easily reproduced on Windows' built-in calculator.
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