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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by protomikron on Friday January 05, 2018 @07:58AM (#16078270)
> Can someone more competent on the matter tell me if this idea is crazy?

Yes, it's crazy. :)

But seriously, the ISA (instruction set architecture) is not the problem, but the optimizations (deep pipelines and speculative execution, etc.) are.

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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by dboreham on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:34AM (#16079607)
The nature of the ISA can influence the kinds of optimizations undertaken.
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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by alex_duf on Friday January 05, 2018 @09:34AM (#16078767)
thanks!
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