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Re:Asmttpd: Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly (... by TomMarius on Saturday July 14, 2018 @06:19AM (#17529699)
Do you mean that Itanium would have been safe?
Re:Asmttpd: Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly (... by PeCaN on Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:57AM (#17530817)
It's inherently not vulnerable to the Spectre/Meltdown family of attacks. They rely on speculative, out-of-order execution on modern CPUs, but Itanium is an in-order core with very limited (and software-controlled) speculation.

It's actually not vulnerable to a bunch of other attacks as well (e.g. a buffer overflow cannot overwrite the return address on Itanium).