Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities
Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities
Posted Aug 9, 2023 10:02 UTC (Wed) by roc (subscriber, #30627)In reply to: Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities by Wol
Parent article: Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities
You have to speculate heavily to get high single-thread performance, and single-thread performance will always matter because of Amdahl's Law.
Some people commenting here claim they'd be happy with much lower performance. That's fine, but most people find some Web sites and phone apps useful, and those need high single-thread performance.
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