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Re:Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing by worthless-trash on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @06:23PM (#46052049)
> That must be why we have exactly one branch predictor design, lol

I'll be that 'well akshually' guy. IIRC the AMD and intel implementations are different enough that spectre/meltdown exploits were slightly different on each manufacturers.

Source: wrote exploits.

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Re:Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing by IshKebab on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @02:09AM (#46054908)
It was sarcasm. There are loads of branch predictor designs.
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Re:Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing by worthless-trash on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:09AM (#46055622)
Sorry, I had missed that. I'll go back to my cave.
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