How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst' chip flaw

Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by agumonkey on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:35PM (#16073831)

Maybe having arrays of simpler CPUs and safer full stack semantics (linear logic).

in order instead of out of order, more trivial parallelism..

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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by marcosdumay on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:15PM (#16074165)

Like the Mill. Why don't they release the Mill already?

RISC-V is OoO, isn't it?

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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by agumonkey on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:36AM (#16077563)

Mill guys are not rushing anything to say the least, for better or worse.

i don't know riscv arch but I've seen it mentionned in spectre paper so that's probably the case

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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by jstewartmobile on Friday January 05, 2018 @07:08AM (#16078122)

You are talking sanity in an insane world.

My money is on more x86 procs with more cores, and even flakier cache coherency and memory protection.

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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by agumonkey on Friday January 05, 2018 @10:27AM (#16079135)

If Intel pulls this off i'll applaud

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